Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 31 83. Q. What is the office of the keys? A. The preaching of the holy and Christian discipline. By these two means the kingdom of heaven is opened to believers and shut against unbelievers. 84. Q. How is the kingdom of heaven opened and shut by the preaching of …
Kevin DeYoung identifies these five points as being indicative of feedback on his preaching. They strike me as being generally true, and the first three are part of my goals for preaching after leave. Your introductions are too long. Don’t be afraid to dive right into the text. Your sermons could be five minutes shorter …
This blog post reflects on a booklet by Christopher Ash on listening to sermons. From a longer quote this thought resonates about preaching being a means of grace in gathered worship. “When we listen to an MP3 recording of a sermon, we are not listening to preaching, but to an echo of preaching that happened …
This month’s Preaching Matters video features William Taylor speaking about remedies for poor preaching. The poorest preaching is that which purports to be biblical but instead is really our own thoughts draped over a biblical text. It is doubly poor because it does not tell people the author’s purpose in writing the text, and then …
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