This post on Mental Floss contains this list of eleven rules, attributed to Chuck Jones, for writing Road Runner cartoons. It’s a great demonstration of a basic guide that helps make sure finished product has integrity to its creative purpose. In preaching: a sermon should not have a main takeaway of ‘try harder’; the engine …
If you’re listening to a preacher tomorrow, hopefully they’re not trying to lift you up to heaven with their words. (Or worse by the music) Their language should point you instead to the fact that God comes down to us. From William Willimon. The cross is a reminder that there is no eloquent, rhetorically savvy …
AP is the quarterly publication of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. The Autumn 2015 Issue is available online, with print copies available upon request at their homepage. The theme this issue is preaching. Given that the present and previous moderator-generals of the PCA are about to conduct their final Revitalising Preaching Seminar in Melbourne, you …
Hopefully Tim Challies’ quote of the day won’t be too evidently proven tomorrow. Regardless, of the quality of the preaching though, the Scriptures are God’s only authoritative word to His people in these last days. That’s another reason we read them aloud during our worship, week by week.
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