Category Archives: Stage 5 – Message Purpose

Saturday Short Thought: Fresh Over Abundance from a Can

This week the blog has been pondering issues of recycling sermonic materials and also recycling other peoples’ materials.  Meanwhile we’ve welcomed a healthy baby daughter into our home and we are both thankful to our gracious Lord and very tired! … Continue reading

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Eco-Preaching: 5 Dangers of Recycling Sermons

Yesterday I offered five potential benefits of recycling sermons.  Now let’s consider five dangers: 1. Personal stagnation.  John Wesley is widely credited with saying “Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I … Continue reading

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Eco-Preaching: 5 Benefits of Recycling Sermons

Here are five potential benefits that can come from recycling sermons.  Not every one will apply to every situation, nor will every one always be a benefit.  Please apply wisdom and balance this post with tomorrow’s post on the dangers … Continue reading

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Eco-Preaching: Recycled Sermons Must Be Refreshed

I don’t believe a preacher should pull out an old sermon and just preach it, unless the invitation to preach was five seconds before the sermon slot.  Any longer notice and the preacher should be prayerfully refreshing the message. Undoubtedly, … Continue reading

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Eco-Preaching: Ever Old, Always New

This week I’d like to go green and consider the notion of recycling sermons. We’ll touch on different aspects of this broad subject over the next few days (although there may be a quiet day or two as we have … Continue reading

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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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Disconnected Technology and Sermon Prep

Yesterday I blogged about some of the ways we can be connected to others as we prepare a sermon.  Today let’s unplug the router and think about disconnected technology that may be helpful: Word Processor – I suspect this is … Continue reading

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Let Man Not Separate Holy Spirit and Preaching Content

Yesterday we addressed the issue of preparing to preach, and how that is a part of ministry life that truly and profoundly involves the Holy Spirit (or at least, it should).  The danger of divorcing our ministry from the Spirit … Continue reading

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Preaching Proverbs 5: Random Thoughts

To finish off this series of posts on preaching Proverbs, here is a randomly organized collection of brief thoughts.  See what I did there? 1. Preaching topically may be fine.  I’ve avoided the more obvious approach of addressing a subject … Continue reading

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Preaching Proverbs 4: Sayings and Sermons

Yesterday I described two masterpieces of the art of preaching Proverbs (click here to see post).  Both the explanatory emphasis of the first and the applicational emphasis of the second affirmed the possibility of a full-length single saying sermon from … Continue reading

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