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 …
This list is from a longer post, but seems to sum up a lot of concerns I hear around our denomination in Australia. And some of them strike a bit painfully close to home. (For me, points 1, 6 and 7, particularly.) We want minds informed and hearts set on fire. Both/and, nor either/or. Primary …
David Cook speaks about preaching from John’s Gospel. Topics covered include preaching that both evangelises and informs, textual expository preaching, how and when to focus on evangelistic aspects of the text, and more. David concludes speaking about the heart-warming encouragement congregations of Christians receive when they sit under preaching that has an evangelistic focus. From …
At Reformation 21, Jeremy Walker provides some earnest and good-humoured commentary dealing with the situation reported in Acts where Eutychus falls asleep (and out a window) during a late night sermon by the Apostle Paul. Walker believes that, rather than Eutychus and Paul having committed the rather contemporary transgressions of being bored and being boring, …
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