“For the health of the church, which lives and grows through the word of God, and for the sake of the preacher who needs this discipline, we must return to systematic exposition.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 93
Because the River of Exposition Has White Water
“Because it takes courage to deal with certain issues, I recommend systematic exposition, working steadily through a book of the Bible or a section of a book, verse by verse or paragraph by paragraph. This approach forces us to discuss passages that we might otherwise overlook, or even deliberately avoid.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 92
Psalm 119/ A Hymn to the Word
Sermon Video The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: And here we come to a great hymn of gratitude and praise, offered up to God for His glorious law. We have here the definitive answer ...
So Make the Choice Prior to Ordination
“Preachers, like prophets, believe they bring a word from God, and are not free to change it. Therefore all preachers have at various times to choose between truth with unpopularity and falsehood with popularity.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 90
Don Quist, RIP
Welcome, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We have gathered at a Christian funeral or memorial service, and this means that everything in it should revolve around the word honor. We are ...
Heralds, Not Hacks
“People-pleasers and time-fillers never make good preachers. We are . . . appointed to proclaim what God has said, not what people want to hear.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 87
If the Sermon is Water, the Word in the Man is the Well
“True preaching is never a superficial activity; it wells up out of the depths.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 86
And What God Has Conjoined . . .
“Once we allow him his freedom, both in the preparation and delivery of our sermons, the light and the fire, the truth and the passion will be reunited.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 84
And Some Theologies are More Flammable Than Others
“Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.”
Martin Lloyd-Jones, as quoted in Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 84.
Psalm 118/ The Stone the Builders Rejected
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: And so these Hallel psalms conclude on a note of high triumph—but it is triumph through the midst of trials. This is triumph that perseveres ...