Category: Preaching
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preaching christ
Tim Keller “…So we have a balance to strike—not to preach Christ without preaching the text, and not to preach the text without preaching Christ. Charles Spurgeon gives us a great metaphor for striking this balance. In his sermon “Christ Precious to Believers” (Sermon no. 242, March 13,1859). In it he says that often he…
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preaching about suicide
First of all, a further apology for such a time between posts. Productivity is likely to remain low over the next couple of months so apologies again in advance. On a recent Sunday past, a group of students from a nearby Bible College were responsible for our Morning Bible Hour. Their preacher was a young…
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re-discovering biblical language
Language clothes truth. It gives shape to what is otherwise amorphous. Biblical language, expressed in context, is truth. For this reason I worry when self-evidently biblical language and language that is not obscure begins to disappear from the Christian vocabulary. When we abandon the vocabulary are we abandoning the truth? Below are a few common…
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clergy, laity, and the bible
Ben Witherington has a first class article on the unbiblical divide of clergy and laity, Here and there I may quibble but over all this article is excellent and deserves to be widely read. Below are a few tasters from the article. ‘… This [1 Pet 2] friends is the Magna Carta of Christian identity…
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can you say shibboleth
Cultures are defined by their history and their language. In fact, their history creates their language and their language preserves and explains their history. Thus a culture is a community of people who share in a common history and language. Language is powerfully cohesive (and divisive). When God wanted to scatter peoples across the earth…
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is the first commandment relevant to pagans?
One of the things I am always chipping away at is what seems to me to be the thoughtless and, worse still, unbiblical way that many impose the Mosaic Covenant, on folks today – pagan or Christian folks. Now there are lots of issues here. Let me focus on one. We are told the Ten…
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I am of…
‘I am of Paul, I am of Apollos, I am of Cephas, I am of Calvin, I am of Luther, I am of Wesley, I am of Darby, I am of Carson, I am of Piper, I am of … I am of Christ’ (1Cor 1:12) There is something deeply ‘fleshly’, worldly, about such an…
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biblical theology and preaching
(I picked this up from somewhere and I can’t remember where or I would acknowledge it. Friend has just informed me. It can be found in SBTJ Forum 2006. This is available as a pdf file here) D.A. Carson has written an excellent summary of how biblical theology should impact our thinking and preaching. Here…
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unanswered prayer
In our Church God has greatly blessed us with a team of preachers clearly gifted by God. The team is led by Andrew Hunter whose preaching is backed by a life that exhibits the fruit of the Spirit. Biblical fidelity and realism mark his preaching. Biblical depth and knowledge is coupled with clear and uncluttered…
Cave Adullam 