Peter Adam continues a series of articles, this time identifying preaching as being the natural place where the Bible is corporately opened and applied to God’s people. If God speaks to his people as a group, why attempt to individualise the focus of applications? It’s not so much that there’s something in the text for …
If you’re attending worship with other Christians tomorrow and hearing a sermon, may it have this character: Preachers of the Word labor under three distinct requirements. First, they are to be faithful (pistoi). They are called to believe, and they are called only to believe. They are not called to know, or to be clever, …
Being a Christian is a corporate experience with individual implications, not an individual experience with corporate implications. Peter Adam is writing a brief series about preaching. Here he addresses what it means to understand the Bible (and preaching) is “mainly addressed to God’s people, not to individuals.” Individualism in preaching [that is, merely addressing individuals] …
I’m currently overhauling my sermon preparation and presentation. It’s challenging on a number of levels, but folk have been very understanding and encouraging. As I don’t get around much I’ve found it helpful to watch videos of various preachers to see their presentation styles and figure out some basic principles to adapt in presentation. Simon …
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