Most people have. Let me share the three reasons people gave at the seminar last weekend for having done this, then I’ll make my point clear:
1. It’s like children wanting the same story told over and over – it gives a sense of security.
2. You catch details you didn’t see first time through.
3. You still [...]
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Bible Study Is Not a Hop
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Expository Preaching, Isaiah on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t want to oversimplify Bible study, but in most basic terms it involves two steps. The first step is to understand what the author meant by what he wrote back then. The second step is to then consider the enduring application of that text for us today. Back then . . . today. Two [...]
The Challenge of Narratives 1: Old Testament
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Continuity, Discontinuity, Expository Preaching, Fallen Condition Focus, Old Testament Narrative, Theocentric on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Note – Peter has offered a clarifying comment on this post.
I’d like to offer a series of posts on the particular challenges for interpreting the major narrative sections in the Bible. Today, the Old Testament. In parts 2 and 3, the Gospels. Then in part 4, Acts.
There are many challenges when interpreting Old Testament narrative [...]
Biblical Narrative: Two Truths Together
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Historical Accuracy, Historicity, Jeffrey Arthurs, Leland Ryken, Literary, Literary Types, Narrative, Preach the Word, Preaching with Variety on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m giving a lot of thought to the preaching of biblical narrative at the moment. I have a seminar on the subject coming up this weekend and I am thoroughly enjoying preparation for that event. Somehow, when it comes to narrative passages, there are two truths that don’t seem to sit easily together in peoples’ [...]
Preaching One Text – Part II
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Expository Preaching, Ezra, Nehemiah, Prophets, Torah, Walter Kaiser on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I addressed why it is generally best to preach on a single text. Today I’d like to address a possible misunderstanding that might result from this suggestion:
This emphasis on preaching a single text does not mean that I advocate preaching biblically naive or theologically unaware messages. To really understand a particular passage usually requires [...]
Why We Preach
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, tagged 29:18, Planning, Pro 29:18, Proverbs 29:18, Vision on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Where there is no vision, the people perish . . . so starts a well-known, oft-quoted and usually misunderstood proverb (Proverbs 29:18). The second half of the proverb completes the thought and makes it clear that this is not about having vision statements, 5-year plans and strategic documents (good as those all are). It is [...]
Preaching Sermons on Sermons
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Old Testament, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Hebrews on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t mean preaching your sermon based on another contemporary preacher’s sermon. I mean preaching a sermon based on a Scriptural sermon. There’s lots of them. It can be fascinating to wrestle with a sermon in its context since you would expect to find a sense of context, purpose, application, explanation, etc. If you haven’t [...]
7 Reasons to Preach A Lesser Known Book
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, tagged 2nd John, Ecclesiastes, Joel, Jude, Nahum, Obadiah, Song of Solomon on August 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Most preachers do what most Christians do. They tend to stay in the familiar books of the Bible. The gospels, the epistles, and maybe some Psalms or well-known Old Testament narratives. But what about Nahum, Obadiah or Joel? What about Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, or even 2nd John or Jude? Here are 7 reasons to [...]
Why Was the Text Written?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In a general sense everything written in the Bible was written for our instruction (Rom.15:4). Yet as preachers we can fall into the trap of looking for a sermon in a text, rather than fully pursuing the process of allowing the text to be boss of the sermon.
Yesterday I was discussing Genesis 3 with a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wrestling with Flow
Posted in Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 4 - Passage Idea on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are shortcuts in preaching. Perhaps some are legitimate, although none spring to mind. But there is one major shortcut that is very common, but that undermines the whole preaching event. Failing to wrestle with flow.
It is easy to break a passage into its chunks and preach a sermon from each chunk. Be sure to [...]
Review: The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative, by Steven D. Mathewson
Posted in Homiletics, Old Testament, Preaching, Review on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There are many preaching books, but only a handful I recommend wholeheartedly. This is one of them. Mathewson’s passion for the many narrative passages in the Old Testament is contagious. His passion for the effective preaching of these passages is greatly needed today. This is especially the case while significant preachers continue to view Old [...]
Getting to Grips with a Genealogy
Posted in Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Specific text, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What do you do when you are preaching through a book and there is a genealogy? I have faced this a few times, although I don’t claim to have a ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution to the challenge. Here are a few tips:
1. Study the function of the genealogy. The author included it for a [...]
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