Following on from reading Saving Eutychus, I’ve been revisiting the form and content of my preaching to consciously hone and develop my preaching craft. This post from Michael Kruger is also helpful. Here’s an intro: Over the years, I have learned to ask students a key question that can reveal a lot about how they …
What does Saving Eutycus (Gary Millar and Phil Campbell, Matthias Media, 2013) promise? In 172 focussed and engaging pages Millar and Campbell unpack the book’s subtitle ‘How to preach God’s Word and keep people awake’. What I liked. Everything. Though not a sermon, Saving Eutychus is a wonderful example of practising what it preaches (so …
Preachers should take more satisfaction from their sermons being a means of change in people’s lives rather than people simply being able to remember their detail. Now this shouldn’t be seen as an either/or situation. Hopefully we’re striving for a both/and. But pastors should be more encouraged about the steady growth of a local church …
A fifteen minute video interview with Sidney Greidanus sponsored by the publishers of his latest book, Preaching Christ From Daniel. Greidanus’ efforts to focus on Jesus and not allow moralising to take the hearers away from the Gospel implicit in Old Testament passages are worthy of returning to again and again. His comment on this …
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