Contrary to the dedication in this image’s title, you can read the Bible literally, but you do have to appreciate literary forms like metaphor and simile or you can end up with an image of beauty like this: HT: Erik Raymond.
Contrary to the dedication in this image’s title, you can read the Bible literally, but you do have to appreciate literary forms like metaphor and simile or you can end up with an image of beauty like this: HT: Erik Raymond.
Douglas Wilson had a short series of posts on preaching at Blog and Mablog last week. Here’s a few quotes, along with links. As always, the points are engagingly and clearly expressed. Preaching is the authoritative declaration of the Word and will of God, with the intention of revealing Christ to the hearers. Christ is …
From Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology. There is always a danger of squeezing the Bible into a mold we bring to it rather than letting the Bible mold us. And, there could hardly be more diversity within the Protestant canon–diverse genres, historical settings, authors, literary levels, ages of history. But while the Bible is not uniform, it is …
Helpful series by Karl Dahlfred who is a church planting missionary, originally from the US, now working in Thailand. What made this series interesting and helpful was Dahlfred’s illustrating the challenges to biblical preaching he identifies with examples from Thai culture. This helped me to better understand that our preaching needs to reveal, teach and …
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