Darryl Dash provides ten questions in sermon preparation, four to ask of the text and six to ask in preparing for preaching the text. Hopefully (assuming if you hear a sermon tomorrow the preacher will base it on a text) you’ll hear these questions addressed. Four Questions for the Text What did this text mean …
Song of preparation: This Life I Live and Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee. Call to worship: Praise: Crown Him With Many Crowns. Corporate Prayer of Confession: Song of assurance, confession of faith, doxology: You Gave Your Life (If Christ Be God); Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 1 ; Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow. Consecutive reading: …
This is from an excerpt by a book on Galatians by Daniel Bush and Noel Due. I’ve never heard of Bush, but Due is a longtime favourite. I can’t tell who wrote what, and the quote at the end of the paragraph is by neither. Certainly there is struggle and effort to the Christian life, …
Keeping up with all things obsolete, the last Japanese manufacturer of VHS video cassette recorders will end production of the devices this month. Read an English language obituary here. I linked to the news of alternate (superior) format Betamax’s last production of blank video tapes here.
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