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Category: Expository

Fluid or Static?

Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“I shall prefer to speak of the continuity or the movement of a sermon, rather than of its outline” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 14).

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Knots Untied

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

“Likewise, a sermon is a plot (premeditated by the preacher) which has as its key ingredient a sensed discrepancy, a homiletical bind. Something is ‘up in the air’ — an issue not resolved . . . Preaching is story telling. A sermon is a narrative art form” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 12).

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Sermons Built From Legos

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

“I used to feel guilty about the sermon which seemed to have its own demands and desires . . . Of course I was violating the rules of sermon making — for many years before I had been taught the engineering science of sermon construction! To change the metaphor, I had been taught sermonic architecture …

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Introduction and Background: Samuel 1

Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

INTRODUCTION:The book of Samuel is the repository of some truly great Bible stories. But more than this, it represents the tale of three very complex characters—Samuel, Saul, and David. And behind it all, we see the promises and mercies of the steadfast God. One of the central things we will learn is the ways of …

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Determining What It is You are Doing Up There

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

“For example, most books on preaching operate on the common assumption that sermonic organization evolves out of the logic of content . . . Truth is, to continue our example, a sermon is not a doctrinal lecture. It is an event-in-time, a narrative art form more akin to a play or novel in shape than …

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You Can’t Always Say Everything

Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Every good sermon is heresy when judged for all the important truths left untreated” (Fred Craddock, found in Eugene Lowry, The Homiletical Plot,  p. xiv).

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For Then Am I Strong

Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“A man must recognize the significance of his inabilities . . . A major step toward experiencing the power of God necessitates a thorough-going recognition of our lack of it . . . the preacher must recognize, and even revel in, his own human inabilities” (Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 143)

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Because the Spirit Cares What He Wrote

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

“Christian preachers must never assume that a mutually exclusive decision needs to be made between painstaking exegesis and reliance upon the Spirit” (Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 141).

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And It Shouldn’t Be a .22 Plinker Either

Posted on Monday, February 7, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Preaching, in one sense, merely discharges the firearm that God has loaded in the silent place” (Calvin Miller, as quoted in Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 131).

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Parish Life

Posted on Saturday, February 5, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

INTRODUCTION:Over the years, we have seen many believers move here to the Palouse, and we have been greatly blessed by this. The reasons have obviously varied, but in countless conversations I have been a part of, the word that comes up over and over and over again is the word community. There is a reason …

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