We’ve noted that there are discourse passages in almost every section of Scripture – history, wisdom, prophet, gospel, etc. Awareness of the broader plot within which discourse is placed is helpful both in understanding the passage meaning and purpose, and also for preaching the passage with contextual understanding and tension.
So if we decide to preach [...]
Archive for March, 2008
What is Your Center?
Posted in Homiletics, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Haddon Robinson says this of preaching: “If preaching is not your center, then you will not preach. You will give all of your time, all of your energy, and all of your heart to other areas of ministry. However, if you are called by God to preach, if you burn to preach, if preaching is [...]
Reminder – New URL
Posted in Homiletics, Preaching on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder that this site is now under the new biblicalpreaching.net address. If you have not updated your feed or a link on your site, please do so to avoid any problems receiving the posts. Thanks for visiting BiblicalPreaching.Net – we appreciate it!
Discourse is Not Just Epistles
Posted in Genre, Homiletics, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Specific text, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I teach preaching courses, I tend to refer to the three types of Scripture: discourse, narrative and poetry. The various genre fit within these categories and so they give a good overview of different Biblical text types. So the principles of narrative interpretation would apply in the Gospels, Acts, historical books and [...]
Be Sure To Thank These Heroes
Posted in Delivery, Homiletics, Preaching, tagged Sound technicians, techs on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe they sit behind a desk more complicated than a 747 cockpit, or perhaps next to just two dials and a switch. It actually doesn’t matter, but if the sound tech in your church enables people to hear the message without distraction then they are a hero in my book. I was just at a [...]
Warning! Danger Lurking Nearby!
Posted in Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Humility, pride on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All sin is dangerous. We should never be complacent about any sin or the risk it poses. But surely the sin of pride should be top of our danger list as preachers. Pride, a sense of independence, not needing God or others, is a strangely familiar companion to pulpit ministry. Perhaps it is something about [...]
Getting to Grips with the Genres: Poetry (1)
Posted in Genre, Homiletics, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Genre, Proverbs, Psalms, Wisdom Literature on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry is different from narrative and it is very different from discourse. How though is our preaching of poetry different from our preaching of narrative and discourse? To answer this question, today we will consider how poetry works and functions. Then tomorrow we’ll consider some implications for preaching poetry.
How Poetry Works – Besides employing literary [...]
Length of Rehearsal
Posted in Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would strongly encourage preachers to run through their message, out loud, before preaching it. Call it a rehearsal if you like, or use a different term if that makes preaching sound too much like a performance. Preaching is primarily an oral and aural art form, so to restrict preparation to written and [...]
10 Ideas That Are Changing The World
Posted in Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, tagged Ideas, Time, Time Magazine on March 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is the cover story on this week’s Time magazine cover. Interesting title. The article begins,
“More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on. Here are a few you need to know about . . .”
Having studied under Haddon Robinson, it is like music to my ears to [...]
Struggling With Your Spouse?
Posted in Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sunday morning is often an easy time to get into conflict with your spouse. Somewhere between waking up and pulling up to the church parking lot, sparks can fly.
Haddon Robinson was asked by a seminary student, “How do you preach following a blow-out with your spouse?” Haddon answered, “Everyone wants to know you struggle, they [...]
Don’t Preach Lazy Apologetics
Posted in Delivery, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, tagged Apologetics, Easter, Evidential, Flew, Habermas, Resurrection, Westminster Chapel, Wright on March 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I attended a day conference about the resurrection held in Westminster Chapel. NT Wright and Gary Habermas were the speakers, along with a brief session with Antony Flew. He is the British philosopher who caused a real stir a few years ago by giving up his atheistic position to state that the evidence had [...]
Describe Preaching In Two Words
Posted in Homiletics, Preaching, Religion on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When Haddon Robinson was asked to describe preaching in two words he said, “Glorious burden.” Isn’t this the truth? Preaching is glorious. We stand before the people of God with words from God that shape and mold Christ in us. Wow, I’m so thankful to be able to preach. But as glorious as preaching is, [...]
Don’t Preach Just ‘Cos
Posted in Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Dryness, Jeremiah, Motivation on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you preach regularly, it is easy to get into an unhealthy mindset concerning the ministry. It’s the kind of mindset where you will preach next time because it’s what you do. You did it last week and will do it again this week. I’m sure most of us have experienced this [...]
The Added Challenges of Being a Visiting Speaker
Posted in Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my ministry I get to be a visiting speaker regularly. This presents some additional challenges that have to be thought through. I’d like to mention a handful, starting with two today. If you get invited somewhere, try to get as many of these questions answered ahead of time as you can. Otherwise you just [...]
Who Put Them There?
Posted in Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 1 - Passage Selection on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first stage in preparing a biblical message is to select the passage. This is incredibly easy if you take an arbitrary approach to the canon. For example, maybe you plan to preach chapter-by-chapter through a book, or even verse-by-verse through a section. Wait! This sounds easy, but we must not take this approach.
The chapter [...]
New Site Address
Posted in Homiletics, Preaching on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just wanted to let you know that in the next few days the site address will change to biblicalpreaching.net – the current address will still work, so there should be no problems. If you are receiving a daily rss feed and it suddenly stops, please visit the site and sign up again for the [...]
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