Greidanus’ outlines seven legitimate ways of preaching Christ from the Old Testament. Now he brings these seven to bear on Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 As he’s already noted, two of his seven, promise fulfillment and typology, are not applicable in the main to Ecclesiastes. Here are scant summaries of how Greidanus treats the other five: Redemptive-Historical Progression: …
At Head – Heart – Hand David Murray notes that blogs take two main forms, those that are composed largely of material collected from other sources or those that are composed of material that is created by the hoster of the blog. Murray distinguishes those who compose these two types of blogs as either curators …
Sidney Greidanus identifies three difficulties in ‘Preaching Christ From Ecclesiastes’: 1. Selecting a proper preaching text; 2. Formulating a single theme; and 3. Preaching Christ. In his treatment of the third of those points Greidanus writes: ‘Ecclesiastes contains not even one “messianic text”; there is not promise of the coming Messiah. How does on preach …
The University Fellowship of Christians (from Tasmania) website features a digest of a sermon by Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill on Luke 5:27-32 called Jesus Loves Sinners. The brief article relates that Driscoll ends with these words: …To the drunks, the addicts, the perverts, the victims, the porn stars, the prostitutes, the adulterers, theives, the …
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