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What the Bible Says about the Afterlife
I’ve been a pastor for twenty years. If there’s one thing people have questions about, it’s the afterlife. If there’s one thing people...
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Preaching Propositions from Narratives: Is It Faithful?
Interest in narrative preaching has been on the rise as of late, and some leaders of emerging expressions of Christianity challenge the...
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Piper and Willimon on Preaching
John Piper is a Baptist pastor in Minneapolis with a strong Calvinistic soteriology. Will Willimon is a United Methodist bishop in...
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The Way Back
More for Graeme Goldsworthy: “The ‘law’ given to the first Adam, the first son of God, was broken, and mankind was thrown out of the...
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The Worst In Us
I’m reading Will Willimon’s Proclamation and Theology tonight and was so intrigued by this quote that I thought I would share it...
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Part of the Problem
I got a call today from a salesman for a company called Bluefish TV. Among other things, they sell DVDs and video downloads of...
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Why I Preach Expositionally, part 6: Responding to Objections
It may come as a surprise to some that the expositional preaching of scripture has met with objection in many quarters of the church. ...
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Why I Preach Expositionally, part 5, The Fear of God
“‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘when I will send a famine through the land – not a famine of food or a thirst for...
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Why I Preach Expositionally, part 4: Personal Growth
Many pastors face hectic schedules and often the thing that is neglected is time for personal study and formation. Preaching through a...
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Preaching & Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church by Walter Kaiser
The book is split into two main parts. In the first, the author makes the case for the need to preach and teach from the OT. The chapters...
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Why I Preach Expositionally, part 3: The Case for Preaching Whole Books
The Bible is a collection of books the genres of which include epistolary, legal, prophetic, historical, narratival, apocalyptic,...
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Why I Preach Expositionally, part 2: The Sufficiency of Scripture
Neither is this doctrine foisted upon scripture from the outside. 2 Peter 1:3 declares, “His divine power has given us everything needed...
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Why I Preach Expositionally, part 1: The Authority of Scripture
As I’ve said, I am a strong proponent of expositional preaching, and I want to take the next several posts to outline the reasons why I...
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Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers by T. David Gordon
The first chapter makes the case that there is indeed a problem in American preaching. Gordon not only draws on his own experience of bad...
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Preaching Like Pelagians
I stopped in a restaurant for some take-out on my way home this evening and ran into one of my preaching professors from Asbury. After...
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What is Christian Preaching?
Preaching has been a central part of Christian practice from the establishment of the Church down to the present day. The gospels...
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