This blog post reflects on a booklet by Christopher Ash on listening to sermons. From a longer quote this thought resonates about preaching being a means of grace in gathered worship. “When we listen to an MP3 recording of a sermon, we are not listening to preaching, but to an echo of preaching that happened …
This month’s Preaching Matters video features William Taylor speaking about remedies for poor preaching. The poorest preaching is that which purports to be biblical but instead is really our own thoughts draped over a biblical text. It is doubly poor because it does not tell people the author’s purpose in writing the text, and then …
Paul Levy writes at Reformation 21 about why it’s a good idea to move forward and fill up the vacant seats at the front of the church. In doing so he makes the following observation about preaching as a two-way communication: Somebody recently defined preaching to me as a sustained monologue to a group of …
The Presbyterian Church of South Australia are sending me to the Revitalising Preaching Conference which is being held this week in Sydney. They are doing so at the suggestion of Conference organiser (and moderator general of the PCA) David Cook, who made the request to the South Australian State Assembly last month. David’s idea is …
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