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 than comprehensively? Here are some pointers: Foundation – Know the message, flow and structure of [...]
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Planning a Selective Series
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, tagged Expository Preaching, Preaching Series on January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Preaching As Invitation
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 and so have no need to return to it. We might over deliver on the [...]
Preaching to a Postmodern Culture
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, tagged Acts 17, Al Mohler, evangelistic preaching, Expository Preaching, He is Not Silent, Paul in Athens, Postmodern Preaching, Postmodernism, Postmodernity on August 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In his book, He is Not Silent, Al Mohler offers a no-holds barred chapter on postmodernity and preaching. After listing a series of negative observations of the postmodern “mood” (and probably failing to recognize the positive opportunities now presented to us as preachers), he presents a series of principles for proper proclamation in a postmodern [...]
Notice the Details
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Apologetics, Bibliology, Cambridge University, Expository Preaching, Peter J. Williams, Peter Williams, Textual Apologetics, Tyndale House, Word Perfect Quotations on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you are studying a text and preparing to preach it, make sure you notice the details. No word is there by accident. As I sometimes say, the writers of the Bible were neither drunk nor wasteful. Not drunk means that they were coherent and deliberate in what they wrote. Not wasteful means that papyrus [...]
The Challenge of Narratives 3: Gospels – Part II
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Expository Preaching, Harmonization, Harmony of the gospels, John's Gospel, Mark's Gospel, Preaching Gospels, Synoptic Gospels on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Note – Peter has extended comments related to this post, see previous in the series here Last time we looked at the interpretational challenge of more than one “author.” Now, let’s see another challenge: 2. More than one “account” of the event. What are we to do when we find the same story told in [...]
Preaching As History Making
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, New Testament, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, tagged Acts of the Apostles, Ben Witherington, Ben Witherington III, Church History, Pentecost, Speeches in Acts, Stephen's Speech, Walter Liefeld on January 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The book of Acts is a fascinating study. It is the only inspired account of the birth of the church and early church history. Yet like all of inspired Scripture, it goes beyond mere history. While some are quick to oversimplify their categorization of New Testament genre into stories of Jesus (gospels), instructions for the [...]
Dealing With Deadened Motivation
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, tagged Affective Theology, Fruit of the Flesh, Galatians on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
How are we to deal with a cold heart when we find one sitting in our own chest? How should we respond to a lack of spiritual motivation? I believe we need to think biblically and theologically about this very real challenge in our lives. Effort of the flesh does not work. It is common [...]
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 [...]
Planning a Gospel Series – Four More Suggestions
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Gospels on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are four more suggestions for planning a gospel series: Decide how many messages the series will last, then select accordingly. You might only deal with a part of the gospel (such as the Upper Room Discourse). You might select exemplary units that point to the flow in which they sit (such as Luke 19:1-10 [...]
Planning a Gospel Series – Four Suggestions
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Gospels on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is a good idea to preach a series from one of the gospels, but it is not easy to plan. There are so many events, parables and teaching sections that a series which simply goes from one NIV heading to the next would last for years. Here are some suggestions: Get to grips with [...]
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 [...]
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 so on. [...]
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 [...]
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