Preaching Christ From Ecclesiastes by Sidney Greidanus arrived yesterday while I was at Assembly. I pre-ordered it from Amazon.com a couple of months ago. Subtitled: Foundations For Expository Sermons, the book features thirty pages of introductory material before launching into two hundred and sixty odd pages that deal with Greidanus’ treatment of Ecclesiastes broken into …

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Good thought based on Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well from the fourth chapter of John’s Gospel. Her primary problem was her ignorance, which is exactly what Jesus addresses in John 4:10. Instead of answering her question, he points out the need for it to be reconfigured. “If you knew the gift of …

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So, while driving home from church this morning I was listening to our local Christian radio’s broadcast from Crossway Baptist. Between songs the leader read this out. If I’d heard/read this I’d forgot it. Through the wonder of google here’s a copy for you. There are probably variations floating around the internet. Apparently it’s attributed …

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