If you have a commitment to expository Biblical preaching as it is understood on this site, then some versions of preaching obviously stand out as poor. The anecdotal platitudinal rambling with a verse attached won’t fool many of us. The non-expository topical sermon where verses aren’t handled with care and the Bible isn’t in authority [...]
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Pseudo-Expository Preaching
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Expository Preaching, Pseudo-Expository on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visual Variations – Part 2
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In thinking about the 3 V’s of delivery, we have looked at the voice (vocal) and are in the midst of the visual (non-verbals). Yesterday we considered the supreme issue of eye-contact (watch a video of yourself if you don’t believe me when I say you probably don’t look at your congregation as much as [...]
Visual Variations
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, tagged Bert Decker, Expository Preaching, Hershael York, Non-Verbal, Visual Communication on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we gave some thought to the vocal variations needed for effective delivery. Today let’s remind ourselves of some aspects of visual delivery – the non-verbals that are so powerful. The key here is for the visual (non-verbals) and the vocal to work together with the verbal (words) to make the communication consistent and impactful. [...]
Vocal Variations
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching, Preaching Voice, Use of Voice, Vocal, Vocal Delivery on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Delivery of a message is a complex issue. While this shouldn’t create tensions in us that distract from working hard on content (Bible study, pastoral awareness, prayer, message shaping, etc.), we do need to give some thought to how we deliver a sermon. Delivery consists of three elements – the verbal (words used), the visual [...]
A Mentoring Prod
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching, Harry Stack Sullivan, Mentoring, Ron Jenson, Ted Engstrom on July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve written before on the critical subject of mentoring. It’s easy as a preacher to be too busy to invest in mentoring relationships. It’s also easy to miss the heart of what we are called to in ministry. I’ve just started The Making of a Mentor by Ted Engstrom and Ron Jenson. Pointing to Paul’s [...]
Preaching – What Kind of Authority Is This?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Al Mohler, Albert Mohler, Expository Preaching, He is Not Silent on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In recent decades many churches have moved from having the Scripture preached with authority to a watered down “talk” so committed to connection and amateurism that it completely lacks authority. While the “watery talk” may have proved ineffective in achieving anything other than a voluntary social club under the name of church, we need to [...]
Pastoral Periphery?
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching, Lloyd-Jones, Martn Lloyd-Jones on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Martyn Lloyd-Jones held preaching to be the highest calling. Many pastors and church leaders consider it the central calling in their ever increasing list of tasks. In reality preaching is only ever one part of a bigger package. There may also be counsellor, crisis-management, events organizer, team coordinator, small group leader, tension diffuser, visionary leader, [...]
Non-Sermon Specific Feedback
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching, Preaching Feedback, Sermon Feedback on June 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It is healthy and helpful to get feedback on your preaching. Sometimes you might pursue this by asking several people to fill out an evaluation of a sermon preached. Perhaps you ask for specific feedback on handling of the text, or aspects of delivery that you are working on, etc. Another approach is to form [...]
It’s Not Always The Environment
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It can be the environment. It can be the seats and their position on the relative scale of personal discomfort. It can be the ambient temperature. It can certainly be the noisy and distracting child (parents should never underestimate the distracting power of a noisy child!) The environment can certainly be a key factor in [...]
Preaching at the Heart of Worship
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am meandering through Al Mohler’s book, He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World. He begins the book with a chapter on worship. Not in the way that many churches begin the service with worship (i.e. music) and then get to the preaching part. No, rather he begins by making it clear that [...]
Why Preaching is Weaker Now – Cont.
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, tagged Al Mohler, Albert Mohler, Expository Preaching, He is Not Silent, Postmodern Preaching on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing the list begun yesterday from the preface to Al Mohler’s 2008 book, He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World. Six reasons why preaching has been undermined in the contemporary church and is weakened at this point in time. Here we go:
4. Contemporary preaching suffers from an emptying of biblical content. When preachers [...]
Why Preaching is Weaker Now
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, tagged Albert Mohler, Expository Preaching, He is Not Silent, Postmodern Preaching on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the preface to his 2008 book, He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World, Al Mohler lists six reasons why preaching has been undermined in the contemporary church and is weakened at this point in time. Let me list the reasons with brief explanation:
1. Contemporary preaching suffers from a loss of confidence in [...]
Is Our View of Preaching Too Small?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, tagged Biblical preaching, Expository Preaching, John Broadus on June 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As John Broadus once wrote, “Preaching is characteristic of Christianity. No other religion has made the regular and frequent assembling of groups of people, to hear religious instruction and exhortation, an integral part of divine worship.” This is fine, as far as it goes, but I would suggest this quote alone does not go far [...]
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