Category Archives: New Testament

by | January 28, 2012

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 →

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by | December 5, 2011

New Online Preaching Resource: Help Needed To Spread the Word

I decided to start a facebook community page associated with this site.  The link is facebook.com/biblicalpreaching.net Here’s my thinking: 1. It can be an informal conversation between preachers and those who care about preaching. 2. It can be a place … Continue reading →

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by | November 30, 2011

10 Ways to Half Preach a Text – Part ii

In this series of posts I am offering ten ways that I see preachers half-using a preaching text.  The goal isn’t to critique, but to nudge us all to a higher view of the inspired text, a higher level of … Continue reading →

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by | November 28, 2011

Do You Preach Concrete as Abstract?

God didn’t give us a systematic theology with an index and table of contents.  Christ didn’t work with a scribe to give us an abstract set of philosophical and theological truths that we should memorise and apply.  Instead, in His … Continue reading →

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by | November 26, 2011

Saturday Short Thought: Christmas According to Sibbes

This week I spent a few days on here thinking out loud about Christmas.  I’ve also done quite a bit of thinking in terms of the six messages I have coming up in December.  I am going with a Christ … Continue reading →

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by | October 24, 2011

Eternal Preaching – Part 2

Last time I listed and rebutted five reasons that the future has been squeezed out of much of the preaching in our generation (not in every church, but in many).  One accusation is that preaching about the future isn’t worth … Continue reading →

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by | October 14, 2011

Strategic Application Saving

Yesterday I met with a good friend to talk through a passage he is going to preach soon.  I love conversations like that!  As usual, within a few minutes I was starting to wish I were also preaching that passage. … Continue reading →

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by | October 12, 2011

Woven Threads of Meaning

Here’s a post from back in the early days of this site that I think is worthy of a review (and as in sermon preparation, I’ll find myself tweaking it as I look at it again!) ____________________ Sometimes a passage … Continue reading →

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by | September 28, 2011

More Help in the Vicinity

Yesterday we were thinking about texts that don’t sit up and easily offer engaging and interesting sermon spice.  Perhaps they lack illustrative content, or engaging narratival features.  The temptation is to relegate the text to a small role in the … Continue reading →

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by | June 2, 2011

So What You Are Saying Is . . .

So let’s say you are preaching on Ephesians 2:1-10.  And you happen to see on Facebook that the Apostle Paul is preaching at an event not far from you on that very text, just two days before you are due … Continue reading →

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