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Monday Preacher’s Blues: Seven Signs The Sermon Is Nearly Over (via Jon Acuff)
Jon Acuff provides seven signs the sermon is nearly over. Don’t know if I gave any of these yesterday. Everyone did a good job of not obviously looking for them. 7 ways to know a sermon is about to...
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Phillip Jensen On Application In Preaching (via St Helen’s, Bishopsgate)
Courtesy of St. Helen’s excellent Preaching Matters web portal, Phillip Jensen talks about application of the Scriptures in preaching. He also makes a few comments about why conference preachers can...
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Worship: The Glory War
From Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp: You could argue that every worship service is little more than a glory war. The great question of the gathering is, will the hearts of this group of people be...
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Cleese And Seinfeld On Creativity
A couple of videos, one featuring John Cleese, the other Jerry Seinfeld, both dealing with creative process. It is interesting to see the discipline involved in creating works, that when presented,...
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We Tend To Preach The Gospel As If It’s Only About The Forgiveness Of Sins...
From a longer transcript of an interview with New Testament scholar Darrell Bock. ht We tend to preach the Gospel as if it’s only about the forgiveness of sins. But, in fact, the whole point about...
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“People Will Learn How To Read The Bible Based Largely On How They See It...
One of the latest Preaching Matters videos features Gavin Perkins who provides his take on preaching in the Sydney evangelical tradition. Apart from the quote which is the title of this post there’s...
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Saving Eutychus: A New Book On Preaching Which I Am Eagerly Anticipating
Nathan has been posting about Gary Millar and Phil Campbell’s soon to be released Saving Eutychus. You can read his introduction here, and his review here. The book has a mini website as well where you...
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The Missing Ingredient: Devoted to ________ and Preaching (via Gary Millar /...
Gary Millar, principal of QTC provides an excerpt from his and Phil Campbell’s forthcoming book on preaching at The Gospel Coalition. He makes a convicting observation that the essential element of...
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Sidney Greidanus Interviewed On Old Testament Preaching And Interpretation
A fifteen minute video interview with Sidney Greidanus sponsored by the publishers of his latest book, Preaching Christ From Daniel. Greidanus’ efforts to focus on Jesus and not allow moralising to...
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The Goal Of Preaching Is To Be Effective Rather Than Memorable (via...
Preachers should take more satisfaction from their sermons being a means of change in people’s lives rather than people simply being able to remember their detail. Now this shouldn’t be seen as an...
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Saving Eutychus – A Book Review
What does Saving Eutycus (Gary Millar and Phil Campbell, Matthias Media, 2013) promise? In 172 focussed and engaging pages Millar and Campbell unpack the book’s subtitle ‘How to preach God’s Word and...
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A Sign Of A Maturing Preacher – Scraps On The Cutting Room Floor (via Michael...
Following on from reading Saving Eutychus, I’ve been revisiting the form and content of my preaching to consciously hone and develop my preaching craft. This post from Michael Kruger is also helpful....
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Preach The Text, Don’t Pull Christ Out Of The Text Like A Magician Pulling A...
Now it may seem that I have no time for preaching that includes moral commands or draws conclusions about ethical behaviour. That’s not the case. It’s not about imposing the redemptive work of Jesus...
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Emotional Preaching – Interview With Peter Bolt on Preaching Matters (via St...
Peter Bolt from Moore College is the subject of this month’s interview at Preaching Matters. The subject is emotional preaching. In a helpful interview Bolt differentiates between emotionalism and...
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Jay Adams’ Friday Preaching Posts: Preaching With Purpose
While known primarily for his background in counselling, Jay Adams is a great teacher of preaching. The Institute for Nouthetic Studies is posting articles by Adams on preaching each Friday. They will...
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Christ-Centered Preaching And Teaching – Free ebook From The Gospel Coalition
Derived by a series of posts published at the Gospel Coalition on the titular theme, Christ-Centered Preaching And Teaching has chapters by Daniel Block, David Murray, Walt Kaiser and Bryan Chapell,...
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Two Questions To Ask Every Bible Text (via Bryan Chapell)
Bryan Chapell expands on various sermons which apply his Christ-Centered Preaching motif in his new book Christ-Centered Sermons. The fundamental principle: We should always observe biblical texts...
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Kevin DeYoung On Sequential Expository Preaching (via St Helen’s)
Kevin DeYoung features in this month’s Preaching Matters video from St Helen’s Bishopsgate UK’s blog. DeYoung talks about both the benefits and the drawbacks of the method, helpfully pointing out that...
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Preaching And Picturing Truth (via Jay Adams)
Jay Adams writes about the skill of picturing truth in sermons, and why contemporary congregations need more help in this regard than their predecessors. …let me stress the importance of working harder...
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Kevin DeYoung’s Top Ten Lessons Learned As A Preacher
These all are familiar, though 2, 4, 6 and 10 resonate with me particularly at the moment. Kevin DeYoung via Justin Taylor (where there’s a long video about these) Beware of preaching all your battles...
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