I have heard a number of really memorable illustrations, that I cannot remember what it was they were supposed to illustrate. (One about a cane toad in an electrical sub-station comes to mind) An illustration must make that which it is trying to illustrate memorable. If it won’t do that, and particularly if it is …
Phillips Brooks observes that a series of sermons constrains a preacher and that the challenge is to maintain a consistent vitality from beginning to end. Some evangelical churches that do not follow the lectionary use sequential expositions or series. While sequential expositions have the advantage of unfolding Scripture to the congregation week by week as …
Exhorting preachers to ‘never let men feel that you would gospel would be satisfied with mere decency’, Phillips Brooks makes the point that when addressing the outworking of sin the preacher should never leave their hearer with the sense that all we desire is modified behaviour. While challenging sinful behaviour, our true goal is to …
The ongoing unfolding of God’s word that takes place in the relationship of pastor and people is the essence of the sermon. A sermon is not a sermon unless eternal truth is communicated with the purpose of God’s people responding to the call on their lives, and that those who are not God’s people can …
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