Hopefully Tim Challies’ quote of the day won’t be too evidently proven tomorrow. Regardless, of the quality of the preaching though, the Scriptures are God’s only authoritative word to His people in these last days. That’s another reason we read them aloud during our worship, week by week.
Unless it needs the death and resurrection of Jesus to make sense, it’s not a sermon, it’s a motivational talk. “We ought to preach in such a way that, if Jesus has not been raised from the dead, then our sermons are utterly incomprehensible. Faithful sermons require the presence of the Holy Spirit to make …
A conversation with a pastor who no longer has ongoing weekly commitment to preach, and so hears more sermons remains with me. One main point really. He observed that the big takeaway from most sermons he heard was ‘try harder’. Of course that exhortation was applied in lots of different ways. But the sermons he …
Sinclair Ferguson on the Gospel: I have met some exceptionally intelligent people who cannot understand the Christian gospel. They hear its message as if it were a lecture on morality. Yet the gospel is not difficult to understand. The problem lies within us—in our spiritual blindness. If there is resistance in the heart to loving …
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