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 »
Keep Looking
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Expository Preaching, Textual Outline on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Observation does not work in haste. It takes time to keep looking at something and really see it. I’m told that you cannot get the best out of an art gallery by rushing around and taking mental snapshots (my default approach). I know that neither can you get the best out of a Bible passage [...]
What If You’re Not Ready?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Expository Preaching on May 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It is so important to understand the text before you preach it! I don’t mean just knowing what the big words mean. I don’t mean just having a collection of exegetical insights to share. I don’t mean even having a sermon vaguely based on certain parts of the text. I mean really understanding what the [...]
Five Looks and Two Options
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Andrew Reid, Bible study, Expository Preaching, Ridley College on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post is building on the previous two. Yesterday I shared “Five Looks” approach to Bible study to illustrate a discussion on Monday’s post. The issue raised on Monday was do we preach the main thought of a text, or a biblical theology prompted by the main thought of a text? The question really focuses [...]
Look Look Look Look Look
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Andrew Reid, Bible study, Five Looks, Inductive Bible Study, Ridley College on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Perhaps you have come across the “Five Looks” approach to Bible study? It is a clear and helpful approach credited to Andrew Reid of Ridley College, Melbourne. Here is a brief synopsis:
1. Look Up – We need to receive the Bible as the word of God. This implies a commitment to prayer and faith.
2. Look [...]
The Mastery Challenge – Rationale pt 2
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Bible study, Inductive Bible Study, Personal Bible Study on May 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here are the last three points of rationale for my list. This follows on from the last two days of posts.
5. The brick wall approach urges book by book study – By definition it helps avoid the “mastery of preferred proof texts approach,” or the “selected doctrines based on preferred theology approach,” or other less [...]
The Mastery Challenge – Rationale pt 1
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I shared my foundation and brick wall approach. This post won’t make sense without reading that one first. Here are seven of the underlying thoughts that make me think this approach is a healthy one:
1. Motivation is Key – This approach is designed primarily to facilitate the motivation of the individual. Too often Bible [...]
The Mastery Challenge – Suggestion
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Bible study, Inductive Bible Study on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Back on April 7th I wrote about the need for us all to prioritize mastering, and being mastered by, the Bible. Winston commented and asked for my suggestions on this. I’ll share my thinking briefly here. I’d encourage you to read the earlier post again to refresh your memory and stir the motivation – it [...]
Short Cuts to Nowhere Good – Two
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Expository Preaching on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I pointed out that prayer is by no means a short cut when it comes to preparing to preach. It is critical, but it should not be viewed as a short cut. Today I’d like to share another unhelpful short-cut.
2. Passage Details. It is always tempting to bounce off a detail in the passage [...]
Short Cuts to Nowhere Good
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Expository Preaching, Prayer on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are a couple of short-cuts taken by many preachers that need to be highlighted for the sake of Biblical Preaching. Please be sure to read the explanation as well as the heading (it’s amazing how people miss the point of what’s written sometimes!)
1. Prayer. Prayer is not a short-cut. It is a necessity. It [...]
Why Preaching is Ailing – Part Me
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, tagged Expository Preaching, Greg Haslam, Westminster Chapel on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the last two posts we’ve considered Greg Haslam’s list of eight reasons why preaching is ailing. I’d like to add a couple more to the list, from my perspective. Feel free to add your thoughts.
Some don’t know how to interpret the Bible. Some preachers have the best intentions, and even good presentation skills, but [...]
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 [...]
Review: Bibleworks 8
Posted in Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Review, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Bible Software, Bibleworks, Libronix, Logos, Software on February 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’ve had Bibleworks for many years (since the Hermeneutika days!), but I’ve had Bibleworks 8 for just a couple of weeks. Is it worth upgrading from an older version? Is it worth buying Bibleworks for the first time? Yes and a qualified yes. The qualified yes is that it is worth buying Bibleworks for the [...]
Smooth Preaching Doesn’t Mark
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Crossway, Expository Preaching, Leland Ryken, Peter Jensen, Preach the Word, Smooth Preaching on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I like this term, “smooth preaching.” I was just reading about it and resonating with the thought. Peter Jensen uses the term in his chapter on the role of the seminary in the training of the preacher. (Preach the Word, p216.) He writes, “There is a variety of smooth preaching that replicates what it sees [...]
Abort Sermon! Abort Sermon?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Charles Simeon, Exegesis, Expository Preaching, JI Packer, Leland Ryken, Preach the Word on January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On one level it is a feeling that can come for any reason. A little moment of doubt. An unexpected event, or listener, or conversation, or comment . . . and suddenly the temptation is there to give up on the planned message. Some may have this feeling every time they preach. Others may never [...]
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Comment on Commentaries
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Commentaries, Tom Wright, Reformed Theology, John MacArthur, arminianism, Dallas Theological Seminary, Abingdon Press on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve written on commentaries before, such as here and here, and even here. I was just prompted by something I read to point out something else concerning commentaries. As well as the standard sage advice to not overly revere the commentaries, but rather treat them as conversation partners; as well as the solid [...]
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