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Category: Expository

Learn from Them, Don’t Lean on Them

Posted on Friday, May 20, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Too much consultation of commentaries is apt to have a serious effect on the preacher’s resourcefulness, initiative, and originality” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 112).

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Spadework

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“There is no worth-while subject to which the preacher’s mind will not kindle if he thinks enough upon it and about it” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 110).

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Which Can Explain Quite a Bit

Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The preacher’s whole life, his whole experience is, in a way, a preparation for the sermon, even though it may be an unconscious one” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 108).

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Three Camels and the Needle

Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

In Luke 11, Jesus gives us a truly odd juxtaposition — until we learn to think of generational bloodguilt more biblically than we usually do. Jesus says that one generation killed the prophets, and a subsequent generation builds a tomb for that same prophet (Luke 11:47). According to carnal calculus, building a tomb of honor …

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The Second Ebenezer

Posted on Saturday, May 14, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

INTRODUCTION:The reformation we see here in this passage was slow in coming, and did not last very long. But at the same time, it was real. Reformations are messy, and cannot be understood by the tidy-minded. As we live in a time that is desperate for real reformation, there are many things for us to …

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Spray Early

Posted on Sunday, May 8, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

We often don’t pay enough attention to how familiar passages are juxtaposed. Take, for example, a short chain of passages in Luke 6. A disciple when fully trained will be like his teacher (Luke 6:40). Don’t try to take a speck out of your brother’s eye when you have a railroad tie in your own …

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Because We Are Becoming Someone, Not Cramming for a Test

Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“So one can get spiritual, mental, and moral help from a good book, although he may not remember anything in the book a short time after he has read it” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 85).

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Grazing in Good Metaphor

Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Poetry is also good, for it stimulates the imagination, a faculty sadly neglected by the majority of preachers . . . the preacher ought never to part company with the poets. The objective is not to quote poetry in sermons — there is altogether too much of this — but to find worth-while sermon ideas, …

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Gathering Comes First

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“But this much certainly is true — wide reading in any worth-while field stimulates the mind and gives the reader something of use to him when he comes to prepare his sermon” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 76).

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Imagine

Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Napoleon said, ‘Men of imagination rule the world.’ The preacher of imagination is the prince of the pulpit” (Macartney, Peaching Without Notes, p. 75)

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