Carol encounters a bear. This is relevant for preachers. Do your Sermons focus on what the Bible text means? Or are you teaching people material that is tangential (at best) to the text? There is a place for exploring tangents. It is a a Bible Study, not a pulpit.
On Mother’s Day, the sermon most pastors preach is like this: “Moms are amazing. They are like human unicorns, special, beautiful, smelling of lavender and night jasmine, deserving of our gratitude and our complete affection and pedicures. Mothers, please stand up so that we can shower you with applause and have the ushers give you …
The Desiring God blog has featured Twelve Appeals To Prosperity Preachers from John Piper. The content has been drawn from Piper’s book ‘Let The Nations Be Glad’. As Piper points out This is the missing note in prosperity preaching. The New Testament aims at the glory of Christ, not the glory of his gifts. To …
Among the articles in the May edition of Towers, the journal of Southern Baptist Seminary is a Q&A with Bryan Chapell, president of Covenant Seminary and author of both Christ Centered Preaching and Christ Centered Worship. The interview seeks to introduce the themes of Chapell’s two books to the magazine’s readers. On Christ centered preaching: …
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