Monthly Archives: December 2007

Syndication Feeds

I’ve changed the setting on the site to provide full text feeds for those who would like to use Google Reader or similar tools.

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A Low Fence

When you have a single text for a sermon, you also need a fence.  The fence is there to keep you from wandering too far away from your focus.   Erect a fence for the passage – last night my … Continue reading

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The Blessing of New Year

It’s the last Sunday of the year.  It’s the season of gym-joining, diet-starting, habit-kicking and so on.  As I come to the end of the year I tend to do my personal review in November.  I ask myself two questions … Continue reading

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Bible Read Through

It’s that time of year when resolutions are made, and often it is about 3-7 weeks from when they are broken! But reading through the Bible in a year is a very healthy idea for both the preacher and the … Continue reading

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Preaching Outside the Safety Zone?

As we approach the new year and are thinking through the possibilities in 2008, let us think about possibilities for ministry outside the safety zone of our own pulpits.  Depending on what country you live in, and your network of … Continue reading

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Review: Preaching with Power, edited by Michael Duduit

Subtitle: Dynamic Insights from Twenty Top Pastors (2006) As editor of Preaching Magazine, Michael Duduit is able to take good content from that magazine and publish it in book form. This is exactly what this book is. Twenty interviews with … Continue reading

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When 10 is Only 7

Since every book review posted on this site can be found by clicking on the Review category in the list to the right, there is really no need to have a page of the same reviews sitting on the site … Continue reading

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Practicing What I Preach

For many preachers life is lived in reverse.  People take Sunday off and come to church.  It’s no day-off for us.  People finish work and come home in the evening, but sometimes we have to preach, teach or lead then.  … Continue reading

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The Wonder of Christmas

One of the great occupational hazards of ministry is that we can so easily lose the wonder of what we are dealing with.  With the demands of the schedule, the expectations of people, the burden of creativity in a season … Continue reading

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Thriving in the People / Passage Tension

Phillip Brooks said something along these lines: He never went to his study and looked in the Bible that he didn’t see his people’s faces running across his study. When he went out to meet his people, his study would … Continue reading

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