Introduction We wanted to begin this series of messages on bedrock discipleship by grounding everything we believe on the teaching of Scripture. We want everything we hold on this to be established by the Bible, and to ensure that this is so, we need to be biblically literate people. When we come to the Scriptures …
Bedrock Discipleship: Testimony
Introduction We are evangelical Christians, and so we are very familiar with the word testimony. We have heard a good many of them. But we are also reformational Christians, and this means that a number of us grew either weary or suspicious of the practice because of how it has been mishandled so regularly in …
That’s a Link Right There
“God’s creation is a theater and the human mind is a picture gallery, and we link the two by using words” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 41).
Don’t Preach Purple Unless It Is
“And whatever the subject might require, let a man not speak in an emotional manner unless he really feels it” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 284).
As It Has Pleased Him
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #146 “But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him” (1 Cor. 12:18). In the lines preceding this, Paul has been using the illustration of the human body. The …
Bedrock Discipleship: Bible Reading
Introduction Many of you were kind enough to fill out the survey on Bible reading that we sent out to the congregation. The results were of a nature to delight a pastor’s heart—which they certainly did. About ninety percent of you read the Bible either daily or multiple times weekly. That’s a good business, and …
Let Out the Clutch
“Whatever truth a sermon may present to the mind, it should not end without aiming to bring about some practical result, some corresponding determination of the will, state of the affections, or course of action” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 280).
With Food
“The imagination of every man and woman has an appetite and must be fed” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 31).
On Not Petering Out
“The conclusion ought to have moved like a river, growing in volume and power, but instead of that, the discourse loses itself in some great marsh, or ends like the emptying of a pitcher, with a few poor drops and dregs” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 278).
Like Eggs in the Batter
“The approach is purely cosmetic. It sees imagination as skill in decorating the cake with no thought given to improving the recipe. Imagination in preaching is not a new technique to be learned but a radical new attitude and outlook to be cultivated” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 27).