Category Archives: Specific text
Ministry Checkup: Loving Giver or Glory Seeker?
What kind of ministry do you have? Are you a loving giver or a glory seeker? Paul addresses his own motivations in 1Thessalonians 2 – a passage every preacher should meditate on periodically. Don’t Minister as a Glory Seeker (2:1-6) … Continue reading
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Preach the Passage
Easter Sunday offers us all a temptation as preachers. Whatever the passage being preached, we’re all tempted to actually preach something else. For example, let’s say your passage is in Luke’s gospel. Will you preach the pairs of witnesses that … Continue reading
Easter Thoughts
No post on here today, just a link to the Cor Deo blog where I have offered some thoughts on the importance of Easter. Click here to see the post.
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Lessons on God from Biblical Genre: Epistle
In the past two days I have shared D A Carson’s five points on the diversity of biblical genre. Now to some specific genre and what their design might suggest about God. Carson suggested the following: There are lessons to … Continue reading
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Planning a Selective Series
What criteria can you use when planning a series in a longer book that you don’t want to last for years? Obviously we’re not obligated to cover complete books in a series, but how might you do that selectively rather … Continue reading
Preaching As Invitation
In our zeal to do our best, sometimes we might over deliver in a sermon. For example, we might over deliver on the content of the passage so that listeners get the sense that they have no exhausted that passage … Continue reading
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