Unless it needs the death and resurrection of Jesus to make sense, it’s not a sermon, it’s a motivational talk. “We ought to preach in such a way that, if Jesus has not been raised from the dead, then our sermons are utterly incomprehensible. Faithful sermons require the presence of the Holy Spirit to make …
A conversation with a pastor who no longer has ongoing weekly commitment to preach, and so hears more sermons remains with me. One main point really. He observed that the big takeaway from most sermons he heard was ‘try harder’. Of course that exhortation was applied in lots of different ways. But the sermons he …
Another helpful interview posted by St Helen’s Bishopsgate, this time with Kanishka Raffel from Perth, Western Australia. The theme is not losing heart as we preach the Gospel. Conducted in an interview style, Kanishka models a very winsome and engaging expositional style as he opens 2 Corinthians 4 to show the reasons for being encouraged …
Sinclair Ferguson on the Gospel: I have met some exceptionally intelligent people who cannot understand the Christian gospel. They hear its message as if it were a lecture on morality. Yet the gospel is not difficult to understand. The problem lies within us—in our spiritual blindness. If there is resistance in the heart to loving …
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