Introduction: If Mark is the shortest and punchiest of the gospels, Luke is the most detailed and meticulous. Luke claims to have done very careful research (Luke 1:1-4), and everything about this book bears that claim out. The Text: “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and …
If You Would Speak, Write
“Both the beginner in oratory and the experienced ready speaker, must constrain themselves to write, much and carefully” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 435)
So Make Sure It Fits
“What fits exactly, we repeat, can be easily remembered” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 432).
The Order Is Important
“You are free to break the rules once the rules have broken you” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 232)
Tongues as Pending Judgment
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #169 “Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and …
Surveying the Text: Mark
Introduction: This is the shortest of the four gospels, but Mark uses a number of devices to make it fly by even faster. This is a gospel of now. This is a gospel that is quite effective in presenting us with a sense of vivid immediacy. Mark uses the historical present tense consistently, he uses …
Preaching Wheels Up
“This exaltation of soul, rising at times to rapture, can never be fitly described; but the speaker who does not in some measure know what it means, was not born to be a speaker” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 428).
Denial Prep
“Fanatical or slothful men who say that they never make any preparation, deceive themselves” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 426).
Straight to the Meaning
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #168 “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words …
Surveying the Text: Matthew
Introduction: We are now continuing with our plan to work through the Bible, a book at a time. We have considered the first five books of the Scriptures, the Pentateuch, and have now come to the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels. Let us begin, as seems normal, with Matthew. The Text: …