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• Preaching a Passage Owned

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Preachers preach a Bible passage from a variety of stances or approaches.  I see something of a continuum here and would love to encourage all preachers to move further down the list. 1. Preaching from thoughts prompted by the text. In preparation the text is read, then the preacher preaches based on thoughts ...
  1 day ago

• Think It Through Before You Cross Over This Line!

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  There is a line that it may be tempting to cross.  Perhaps you have been studying in a certain area of theology.  Perhaps it is personal experience that is pushing you in a certain direction.  Perhaps you are tired of a certain over-emphasis in your church circles. So you preach (or write, or converse about, or ...
  2 days ago

• Is That All?

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  I was just reading a book that made a simple, but memorable point.  The author asked a carpenter working on his house what difference Jesus made to his life and work.  The answer was telling, “I suppose he makes me an honest carpenter.”  Is that all? How often do we essentially preach a salvation ticket to ...
  5 days ago

• Overly Narrow Application of a Principle

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  I’d like to build a little on the post from three days ago.  Here is a post I wrote a while back, but am fairly sure I forgot to post on the site.  It offers another angle on the challenges of application, again overtly leaning on Haddon Robinson’s work. In simple terms the homiletical process involves three ...
  6 days ago

• Movie Illustrations – A Risky Business

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Some churches absolutely oppose any illustration from hollywood or TV.  Actually, some churches oppose any attempt to be relevant to contemporary listeners at all.  Now if you preach in a place that is not so restrictive, you’ll be tempted to use movie illustrations sometimes.  They can be very effective.  But ...
  1 week ago

• Preaching and Those Few Key Sentences

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  How many hundreds of sentences are used in a sermon?  And they all matter.  But they don’t all matter as much as a few of them.  I suppose I would suggest the following sentences as worthy of extra effort: 1. The Main Idea. Hours might be spent crafting and honing the main sentence for a message.  That ...
  1 week ago

• Excessive Abstractions and Principles Too General

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Preaching an ancient text to a contemporary congregation will usually require some level of abstraction.  To preach an ancient instruction simply as it stands is to present a historical lecture, rather than a relevant presentation of inspired truth.  Some preachers simply say what is there and effectively offer ...
  1 week ago

• Improving Speech While Not Preparing – 3

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  For the past two days I have looked at word choices and verbal pauses.  More could be said, but it would be more of the same.  Perhaps working on choosing vivid rather than lifeless descriptors would be worth a post, but you can think that through.  I would like to add one more post to the series on another aspect ...
  1 week ago

• Improving Speech While Not Preparing – 2

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Yesterday I referred to Jay Adams’ suggestion that we can improve our language use best by working on it in everyday life so that it becomes natural.  He mentions another aspect of speech that many need to work on.  The unnecessary use of, you know, like, filler words.  These verbal pauses do a lot to distract ...
  1 week ago

• Improving Speech While Not Preparing

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Jay Adams suggests that improvements in speech should be pursued during everyday life, but not when preparing the message.  The reason he gives is that focusing on grammar, phraseology or pronunciation during preparation and delivery is a distraction from the real task at hand.  It is better, he suggests, to work on ...
  1 week ago

• Of Bifurcations and Dichotomies

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Most people have a tendency to think in black and white categories.  Something is either right or wrong, good or bad.  In order to get from the complex world of reality to the comfortable world of clear categories, we tend to bifurcate inappropriately and end up with inconsistent dichotomies.  For example? Well, ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Tired Feast

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Sunday morning I preached the last of the messages.  I’d taught class for four days, but then things got busier.  Between Thursday evening and Sunday morning (60 hours) I spoke six times, taught two sessions, and travelled many miles by car, train and aeroplane.  Not the busiest few days, but among the tightest ...
  2 weeks ago

• Giving a Testimony

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  nugget from Richard Bewes’ book, Speaking in Public Effectively.  As a preacher, you may not be asked to give your testimony so much any more, but perhaps these guidelines might be worth giving to anyone you ask to share a testimony in church. First, it is a testimony to a Person and what he has done for you. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Subject We Don’t Mention

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Actually there are several subjects that preachers are not supposed to talk about, but I’d like to mention one.  Briefly.  Actually I’d rather not mention it, so I’ll quote somebody else.  It’s the issue of “expenses,” aka “petrol money” in some churches, aka “speaking fees,” aka ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reformation Lessons for Preachers – Part 2

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Yesterday I quoted at length from Mike Reeves’ message on Justification (available on theologynetwork.org ).  Mike was addressing the intriguing question, “Why is it that Luther started the Reformation and Erasmus didn’t?” The first part of his answer focused on the contrast between their views of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kristin Swenson—Biblically challenged: Overcoming scriptural illiteracy

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 544
  Comedian Jay Leno has gotten lots of mileage out of exposing general ignorance, including biblical ignorance. Hell ask passersby a question such as "On the first day of creation, God said, Let there be _____" and people will respond: "Um, peace!" Or hell ask, "Who were Cain and Abel?" and get the answer: "Friends of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reformation Lessons for Preachers

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  There could be no end to posts dealing with lessons for preachers from the Reformation.  I’d like to focus in on one today, then another tomorrow.  Both of them were brought out very clearly in a series of messages by Michael Reeves on Justification (available, and well worth listening to, on theologynetwork.org ...
  3 weeks ago

• Preaching Longer Narratives – Part 2

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Yesterday I began to respond to Anthony’s question about preaching longer narratives: How do you handle the tension of wanting to tell the story as it was intended to be told and not wanting to overload the hearers? We saw that how a story is told is critical (more critical than the amount of information ...
  3 weeks ago

• Preaching Longer Narratives

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Anthony asked the following after one of the posts last week: I preach only occasionally, and have tackled a couple of narrative passages recently. I like to respect the narrative chunks in the text, which often have a clear beginning, middle and end. But last time I ended up preaching two whole chapters (75 ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Is The Motivation . . .

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 420
  Do you ever wonder what someone’s motivation might be?  For example, I was thinking about a man I once knew who never read anything except the Bible.  His preaching bore the fruit.  Some might say that his preaching was biblically saturated and uncluttered.  Others might suggest his preaching was unengaging and ...
  3 weeks ago

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