Another post by David Cook has been published on his page at the Presbyterian Church of Australia website. Some helpful thoughts about sermons arising from a breakfast shared with Dick Lucas. I’m looking forward to learning from David, David Jones and Peter Barnes at next week’s Revitalising Preaching conference in Sydney.
June’s Preaching Matters video features Andrew Sachs talking about preaching the emotions of a passage.
S.D. Smith explores the concern “that many of our leading theologians are disconnected from good storytelling and that many of our leading storytellers are disconnected from good theology.” As I continue to struggle with the process of appropriately explaining biblical material this post reminds me that the challenge is to become a more skilled storyteller …
This list is from a longer post, but seems to sum up a lot of concerns I hear around our denomination in Australia. And some of them strike a bit painfully close to home. (For me, points 1, 6 and 7, particularly.) We want minds informed and hearts set on fire. Both/and, nor either/or. Primary …
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