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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Have You Ever Watched A Movie Twice?
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 7 - Message Outline, tagged Expository Preaching, Preaching narrative on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
True Topical Takes Time
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Expository Preaching, Expository-Topical Preaching, Subject Preaching, Topical Preaching on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Some churches apparently have “topical sermons” every week. Apparently some preachers think they are easier to prepare and easier to listen to. Yes and no. A topical message is easier to prepare if you are simply wanting to say your own thing and bounce off a couple of verses along the way. A topical message [...]
U.O.P. – Onus On Us
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, tagged Expository Preaching, Order, Progress, Unity on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Unity. Order. Progress. Three essentials in effective communication of a message. Yet it strikes me that we can sometimes take these for granted when we are preaching on a single passage. Unity? One passage. Order? Moving through the passage. Progress? Getting closer to the end. If this is all we have, then I suspect our [...]
3 DQ’s – Dynamite Questions
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Developing an Idea, Developmental Questions, Donald Sunukjian, Haddon Robinson on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, that should be “developmental questions,” but they are dynamite. Sunukjian and others have followed Robinson in making quite a fuss of these three questions. I would encourage you to do the same. The questions represent the three ways in which a stated idea can be developed. There are no other ways to develop an [...]
More Sneaky Landmines
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Church Leadership, Expository Preaching, Pastoral Ministry on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I shared three sneaky landmines that every preacher faces in the ministry. I appreciated the good comments by Larry and Sudhir, so thought I’d bring their suggestions to the fore in this post. More landmines:
Thinking we need something new to say – Now just because a take on a passage has [...]
Preaching and Biblical Theology – Side 3
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One last time, the basic definition of “Biblical Theology” that I am leaning on for this series of posts: Biblical theology is the fruit of studying the Bible in such a way as to recognize the individuality of each biblical author, the progress of revelation over time and the unity of the canon resulting from [...]
Preaching and Biblical Theology – Side 2
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Biblical Theology, Expository Preaching on May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s the basic definition of “Biblical Theology” that I am leaning on for this series of posts: Biblical theology is the fruit of studying the Bible in such a way as to recognize the individuality of each biblical author, the progress of revelation over time and the unity of the canon resulting from the inspired [...]
Preaching and Biblical Theology – Side 1
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Biblical Theology, Expository Preaching on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Biblical Theology is a very fruitful field for preachers. Not every fruit is worth eating, of course, but there is real benefit to studying works in this field. To give a basic definition for the sake of this post: Biblical theology is the fruit of studying the Bible in such a way as to recognize [...]
Balancing the Balancing
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Old Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Psalm 1 on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every text says something. No text says everything. Our task is to preach the text’s something in a way that is faithful to the Bible’s “everything”. Our task is not to preach everything from this text’s something.
Balance – you don’t want to preach something that on its own is faithful to the preaching text, but [...]
Are There Really Only Three Passages?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 7 - Message Outline, tagged Expository Preaching on May 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I recently heard a friend make an excellent point. Apparently there are only three passages in the Bible. How do we know this? Well, there seem to be only three sermon outlines, so obviously there are only three texts. The sermon outlines are as follows:
1. Jesus died for your sins, repent and believe, when you [...]
Question to Ponder – What is it we preach?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, tagged Biblical preaching, Christocentric Preaching, Expository Preaching, Theocentric Preaching on May 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What is it that we preach? I’m really “preaching to the choir” in this post. I’m addressing those who are committed to expository preaching and therefore will unhesitatingly affirm – “we preach the Bible!” Others may hesitate and desire to preach contemporary ideas or whatever else, but for those of us who, at least in [...]
What’s Fresh?
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Expository Preaching on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you are a regular preacher, then the chances are that you have a rhythm in your preparation. This is good in many ways. However, it also runs the risk of getting into some well-worn ruts. If you are an irregular preacher, then perhaps your preparation process lasts over several weeks. This is also good [...]
Five Major Failings – Part 2
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Applicational Preaching, Expository Preaching, Preaching Applications, Sub-Christian Preaching on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carrying on from yesterday’s two failings, here are the rest:
“3. Vague Phrasing – Preachers seem hardwired to eschew all vivid verbs and concrete nouns, with the result that they sound vague and uninteresting.”
A lack of energy in delivery, a lack of facial engagement, a lack of passion, a lack of effective sensory description and so [...]
Five Major Failings
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Expository Preaching, Message Introductions, Sermon Introductions on April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I thought I’d share this list of five major failings of many preachers, according to the book that I am currently enjoying:
“1. Multiplitus – Using too many points until the sermon becomes a starburst that dazzles rather than communicates.”
Well put. When we try to preach more than one point, we quickly move from communication [...]
Do We Get It Backwards?
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Applicational Preaching, Charles Kraft, Donald Sunukjian, Explaining the Text, Expository Preaching, Preach the Word, Sunukjian on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a provocative quote from Charles Kraft:
The amount of crucial information involved in Christianity is, I believe, quite small. The amount of Christian behavior demanded in response to all that information is, however, quite large. We have, however, given ourselves over to a methodology that emphasizes the lesser of the two ingredients. (Jesus Model for [...]
Reflections on Foreign Language Preaching
Posted in Delivery, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Expository Preaching, Preaching in Italian on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It has been an interesting weekend of preaching for me. For the first time in almost four years, I preached in Italian. Actually, three times in two churches. (Background: I spent my first five years in Italy and have visited many times while growing up, my Italian is quite poor, limited vocabulary and by no [...]
Unhealthy Division: Style & Substance
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged 1Cor.2, Apostle Paul, Corinthians, Expsository Preaching, Preaching Delivery, Preaching style, Substance on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps people like me add to the kind of division I am thinking about by the labels used in our teaching of preaching, but still, we’d do well to think about this. Do we too easily divide elements of preaching?
For example, content and delivery, or substance and style. It’s a simple distinction, and it works [...]
Don’t Dilute By Distraction
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Conclusion, conclusions, Expository Preaching, Message Conclusions, Sermon conclusions on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick thought relating to the concluding movement of a message. This includes the conclusion, but might also bring in the final movement or point of the message. During the final thrust, the crescendo of the message, do not dilute the focus of listeners. It is so easy to unnecessarily add [...]
Preaching and the Great Commandment
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Affective, Affective Theology, Expository Preaching, Ron Frost, Spreading Goodness, spreadinggoodness, Trinitarian on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My post today is not here, but you can get there from here. It’s a guest post on a blog I appreciate very much – spreadinggoodness.org. It is a blog by Dr Ron Frost. I commend the blog to you, and I’m not just saying that because Ron has kindly invited me [...]
Fullness, Not Dipping – Narratives
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Bible as Literature, John Drury, Leland Ryken, Literary Hermeneutics, Preach the Word on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to share another post in light of the chapter by Leland Ryken in the book he co-edited entitled Preach the Word (in honor of Kent Hughes). In writing of the importance of understanding the Bible literarily and not just theologically or historically, he states the following:
A biblical scholar who caught the vision for [...]
We Preach Literature – Part 2
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Gordon Fee, Leland Ryken, Literary, Literary Forms, Literary Types, Preach the Word on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I noted Leland Ryken’s comment that expository preaching “keeps its focus on the announced text instead of escaping from it to other material.” Another feature of expository preaching, in his mind, is as follows:
2. “Expository preaching interacts with the chosen text in terms of the kind of writing that it is instead of immediately [...]
We Preach Literature
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Bible as Literature, Crossway Books, Kent Hughes, Leland Ryken, Preach the Word on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m enjoying Preach the Word and will add a full review in due course, but I’ll share some highlights along the way. This is the book of essays intended to honor Kent Hughes of College Chapel in Wheaton. This morning I enjoyed a chapter by one of the editors, Leland Ryken, on the Bible as [...]
It’s Not the Technique That Counts
Posted in Christianity, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 7 - Message Outline, tagged Outlining, Sermon Outline, Sermon Outlines on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are technically correct ways to write an outline for a message. But more importantly, there is a point to having an outline. Some people can do a perfect outline in form with every indent and numerical marker correct. However, some people who can do a perfect outline, still don’t achieve what the outline is [...]
Necessary and Possible
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Application, Explanation, Expository Preaching on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In simple terms, how much of a message should be spent on explaining the passage, and how much should be spent on applying it?
Spend as much time as necessary explaining the passage. If you don’t explain the passage, your application will lack authority. People need to understand the meaning of the passage, they need to [...]
Limit, No Limit
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 7 - Message Outline, tagged Biblical interpretation, Exegesis, Sermon Delivery, sermon form on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When it comes to preaching there are fewer rules than people might think. Some like to impose significant amounts of structure on the preaching event, but in reality there are few limits involved. There may be some limits imposed by the culture and heritage of a church – congregational traditions – and it is wise [...]
The Preparation Process in Question Form
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps you have already thought it through in this way, or perhaps this will be helpful to you. The eight stage preparation process can be stated in the form of questions:
1. Passage Selection – Which passage will you prepare to preach?
2. Passage Study – What does the passage say and mean? (What is the content [...]
Passage Precedes Message
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 1 - Passage Selection, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read a post on communication that related to content versus visuals in their relative importance. The conclusion was that neither trumped the other, but in fact connection trumped them both. In the more specific realm of biblical preaching, we have to give precedence to the content, but that does not mean we neglect [...]
Apologetics for Homiletics – Part 3
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Bryan Chappell, Haddon Robinson, Preaching Books, Ramesh Richard, Sermon, Sermon Preparation on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So the critical matter of the role of the Spirit raised issues concerning evaluation of past “fruit,” and more importantly, the dynamic tension between good stewardship and self-reliance. Now another objection:
Doesn’t homiletics create a methodological strait jacket? People with years of experience in reading a passage, soaking in it and then coming up with something [...]
Making Words Clear
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Genre, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Specific text, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, Stage 5 - Message Purpose, Stage 6 - Message Idea, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Clausal Layout, Diagramming, Exegetical Outline, Syntactical Analysis on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here in London you can visit the British Library and look at such priceless items as Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus. While it is a privilege to see them, they are not the easiest things to read and understand. Written in uncials, ITISNOTEASYTOREADTEXTWITHOUTGAPSORPUNCTUATION. Never mind the fact that it is in Greek, just the running [...]
Orient Before Any Journey
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 7 - Message Outline, Stage 8 - Message Detail, tagged Inductive Preaching on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s important to know where you are going before you try to go there. This is true in travel and it is true in preaching. Some people mistakenly think that since “deductive” or “punch-line first” approaches to preaching can lack interest, tension and motivation to listen, the alternative is to travel vaguely toward an unknown [...]
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