Jon Acuff provides seven signs the sermon is nearly over. Don’t know if I gave any of these yesterday. Everyone did a good job of not obviously looking for them. 7 ways to know a sermon is about to end: 1. “In closing…” This is an old school sermon ender. When you hear this phrase, …

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David Bailey draws on two years of pastoring and offers 11 tentative reflections. Here are two: Intellect does not equal godliness. Nor lack of it. In fact, intellect is no barometer of godliness at all. Some of the smartest people I’ve met are some of the most foolish. And same with some of the less-intellectually-able …

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Westminster Larger Catechism – Lord’s Day 39 Q & A 155 Q How is the Word made effectual to salvation? A The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of enlightening, convincing, and humbling sinners; of driving them out of themselves, and drawing them unto Christ; …

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