Carl Trueman writes on Martin Luther And The Power Of Preaching; We don’t listen to sermons to hear about us. An excerpt: Luther’s sermons first of all remind us of a very important truth: we are not the center of the universe; God is. And we are not so unique that we need tailor-made personal …
Darryl Dash is enjoying Zack Eswine’s The Imperfect Pastor as well. In a post that also features pointers from Haddon Robinson and Brian Chapell, Dash provides these three questions that Eswine commends preachers to ask of the text they are studying: What does this passage show me about the loveliness of God? Or, put another …
“To show how a text fits into its whole canonical context, then, is to show how it points to Christ and gospel salvation, the big idea of the whole Bible. Every time you expound a Bible text, you are not finished unless you demonstrate how it shows that we cannot save ourselves and that only …
“Learning to preach is more akin to learning to paint in watercolors than it is to learning to mix chemicals together to produce a predictable chemical reaction.” William Willimon.
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