Category Archives: Homiletics
Saturday Short Thought: Fresh Over Abundance from a Can
This week the blog has been pondering issues of recycling sermonic materials and also recycling other peoples’ materials. Meanwhile we’ve welcomed a healthy baby daughter into our home and we are both thankful to our gracious Lord and very tired! … Continue reading →
Eco-Preaching: Recycling and Plagiarism
We live in an age of unprecedented access to information. Cut and Paste was a hassle until a few years ago. Now there is endless resource online just sitting there ready to be plagiarized. At the same time, preachers face … Continue reading →
Eco-Preaching: 5 Dangers of Recycling Sermons
Yesterday I offered five potential benefits of recycling sermons. Now let’s consider five dangers: 1. Personal stagnation. John Wesley is widely credited with saying “Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I … Continue reading →
Eco-Preaching: 5 Benefits of Recycling Sermons
Here are five potential benefits that can come from recycling sermons. Not every one will apply to every situation, nor will every one always be a benefit. Please apply wisdom and balance this post with tomorrow’s post on the dangers … Continue reading →
Eco-Preaching: Recycled Sermons Must Be Refreshed
I don’t believe a preacher should pull out an old sermon and just preach it, unless the invitation to preach was five seconds before the sermon slot. Any longer notice and the preacher should be prayerfully refreshing the message. Undoubtedly, … Continue reading →
Filed under Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail
Eco-Preaching: Ever Old, Always New
This week I’d like to go green and consider the notion of recycling sermons. We’ll touch on different aspects of this broad subject over the next few days (although there may be a quiet day or two as we have … Continue reading →
Saturday Short Thought: Concluding Chronicles and Biblical Theology
Over the past three weeks I have been preaching a series in 2Chronicles 26-36, which is effectively the end of the Hebrew canon (in the typical Jewish ordering of books), and the conclusion of the backwards looking summary of the … Continue reading →
Be Quick to Look, Slow to Decide
This week we began another season of Cor Deo – a small group of people longing to know God more and grow closer to Him. We had some great discussions, studied some wonderful passages and enjoyed getting to know each … Continue reading →
Filed under Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study
Stuck in the Mud
Some sermons seem to get stuck. Some that I preach. Some that others preach. The sermon is moving along well, perhaps moving at a decent pace through a text, engaging and interesting, then suddenly, the sermon seems to go into … Continue reading →
Filed under Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 7 - Message Outline
Why I’m Not Rushing to Two-Person Preaching – Part 2
If our churches follow cultural trends, which they tend to, does this mean we are facing the prospect of “sanctified banter preaching?” After all, it seems like everywhere we look in the media, there are now two presenters, two DJ’s, … Continue reading →
