Having just attended the first Revitalising Preaching Conference, I’ve got plenty to think through. Mostly the experience is sharpening rather than forging a blade from scratch. I don’t want to post a lot about the content here, because it’s all going online some time soon. But here are seven points Andy Naselli has gleaned from …

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Another post by David Cook has been published on his page at the Presbyterian Church of Australia website. Some helpful thoughts about sermons arising from a breakfast shared with Dick Lucas. I’m looking forward to learning from David, David Jones and Peter Barnes at next week’s Revitalising Preaching conference in Sydney.

S.D. Smith explores the concern “that many of our leading theologians are disconnected from good storytelling and that many of our leading storytellers are disconnected from good theology.” As I continue to struggle with the process of appropriately explaining biblical material this post reminds me that the challenge is to become a more skilled storyteller …

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