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Category: Expository

A Long Tunnel is Still a Tunnel

Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Unfortunately, the more we know about a subject, the more apt we are to stay locked into our assumptions, and hence to become blind to alternative perspectives” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 61).

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No Open Vision

Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

INTRODUCTION:And so we are expecting the rise of Samuel, and the fall of the house of Eli. Eli warned his sons of this, and a prophet warned Eli. And now the word of the Lord comes to Samuel for the first time, and it is a word that highlights the loneliness of a prophetic calling. …

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CategoriesExpository TagsBook of Samuel

How Sudden Turns Teach

Posted on Friday, March 11, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Although not every joke form contains as radical a reversal . . . nonetheless, the humor is occasioned by the sudden shift which is unexpected . . . This sudden reversal in preaching comes as the clue to resolution reverses the train of diagnostic thought. The resultant shock does not come in the form of …

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Song of Hannah

Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

INTRODUCTION:God heard the prayer of Hannah, and He gave her a son. She understood what was at stake, and utters a glorious psalm of triumph, a prayer that served as a model for our Lord’s mother, Mary, when she triumphed in much the same way. The horn of Hannah was exalted—and this is a striking …

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CategoriesExpository TagsBook of Samuel

Because Motives Are Only Two-Dimensional in Bad Fiction

Posted on Friday, March 4, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The preacher who does not dirty his homiletical hands with the fact of the deeper and quite fluid complexity of the motive world will not be trusted in the sermon, in a counseling chamber, or in the church board meeting” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 46).

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Which Hinders the Cure of Souls

Posted on Thursday, March 3, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The greatest single weakness of the average sermon is the weakness of diagnosis” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 41).

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Not Lost, Just Not There Yet

Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“While one should not give away the plot resolution, one must give direction to the ambiguity. The congregation nees to know the specific direction of the plot and some of what is involved, but without having the clue to resolution disclosed” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 38).

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But Only As Long as You Are Facing Christ

Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“If you preach from your weakness, you’ll never run out of material” (Andy Stanley).

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Better Listen to Pilate

Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

Pilate knew that it was out of envy that the leaders of the Jews delivered Jesus up (Mat 27:18). We know that Pilate was not a godly or a courageous man — he failed to deliver Jesus even though he knew He was being railroaded, and even though his wife had sent him a message …

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Why All Other Titles Should be Interesting

Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“It should be noted in passing that this is an important purpose in an announced or printed sermon title — to help upset the equilibrium. Most titles tend to do the reverse. They appear to be drawn from the sermon’s conclusion (the scratch rather than the itch). As a result, the preacher has to move …

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