“True simplicity of style, which is at once intelligible, which has an easy movement, a natural beauty and a natural variety, requires patient thought, disciplined imagination, and thorough mastery of language” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 394).
Because It Pretends Not to be a Hypocrite
“The worst of all affectations in style is the affectation of simplicity” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 393).
Piecemeal Revelation
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #160 “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, …
Not a Bank Shot
“You may make an idea plain by repeated and varied statement and illustration; a simple style makes it plain at once” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 391).
Surveying the Text: Genesis
Introduction: Just as Abraham walked through the land that he was promised without settling down to inherit the land, so we walk through the Bible, the land of promise, not yet in full possession of all that has been given to us. We have it already, we don’t have it yet. As we will have …
Far Better
“But better harsh strength than smooth weakness” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 388).
Whether Silk or Plastic
“The flowers suitable in serious discourse are never artificial flowers” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 386).
Which Question Is It?
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #159 “Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when …
When Preaching Slides
“We can now easily understand why some preachers care too much for embellishment. They take a wrong view of their office, or at any rate are influenced by a wrong motive. They aim too much at entertaining, at gratifying the audience. They do not feel the seriousness of their work, the solemnity of their position. …
Church Discipline and Life
Introduction A church that does not or cannot discipline errant members of the congregation is a church with AIDS. It has no means of fighting off infections—whether those infections are moral or doctrinal or both. The infections can be in the heart or the head, but the church has to be able to deal with …