Eric McKiddie, on his blog, Pastoralised, provides these forty helpful observations about preaching which he’s gleaned from composing 400 sermons. I’m simply impressed that he knows how many sermons he’s preached. I’ve got no idea how many I’ve produced. Not all of these pertain to my personal pattern of preparation and delivery, but awareness of …
One aspect of having been around for a while is watching the passing trends of Church life. In the eighties the notion of large attractional churches was vaunted, now smaller groups are being commended. The capacity to offer a broad spread of ministry activity and life of a larger church is now seen as possibly …
From last week. Reasonable weekend. Mostly. AFL, 6/9: Geelong demonstrated why they were worthy of a tip, but also lost by demonstrating why everyone else was tipping against them. Not even their mothers tipped Port Adelaide. If North Melbourne want to declare they should start playing cricket instead. Carlton may be as soft as I …
Composing and delivering sermons is just one expression of creative work. Here’s a helpfully animated clip of two minutes of opinion on storytelling by Ira Glass. I think the point he makes translates to any creative work. ht
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