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Continuing ten ways to disturb the comfortable with your preaching: 6. Don’t make it clear when you are starting a rhetorical question. If the question slips in and people miss it, they then land in the pause as uncomfortable outsiders, unclear what it is they are supposed to be responding to.  Be sure to verbally, [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about some of the challenges that come from our listeners not being able to see our notes.  We preach orally, but tend to prepare in literary forms (manuscript, indented outlines, etc.)  I mentioned the issue of transitions – very different animals in spoken than in written communication.  I mentioned the need to [...]

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On Friday I wrote about raising the bar without just cranking up the pressure. But any talk of application must also bring us back to take a prayerful look at ourselves.  I read a comment in Michael Quicke’s 360-Degree Leadership, a quote from someone, R T Warner, I think.  It said that the early church [...]

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Christmas Break

No posts for a few days.  Enjoy your Christmas and please check back soon!

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Just a quick post to say that we are planning to visit the Chicago area in the first half of May, 2010.  If you’d be interested, I’d be happy to offer an evening seminar on some aspect of preaching, or a full Biblical Preaching Seminar, in your church.  If you are in the Chicago area [...]

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Just a quick FYI – any comments submitted to the site during the second half of March will not be approved and appear until the end of the month.  I’ll be unable to access the internet for about two weeks, hence the delay.  I’ve pre-loaded posts to keep appearing, so please keep visiting and please [...]

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On Saturday February 28th, I’ll be running an all day Biblical Preaching Seminar in Lafayette.  The hosts have set a registration fee of $20.  If you are interested in attending, please let me know and I’ll pass on the organizer’s contact info.

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Subtitle: Essays on Expository Preaching in Honor of R. Kent Hughes This recent volume from Crossway just landed on my doorstep.  I have not read it, hence this is a “pre-review.”  However, since I’ve not added a review for a while, and since Christmas is fast approaching, I thought I’d highlight this book’s existence just [...]

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It is ironic that in the post-enlightenment west, where we “know” that spirits are not real, we naively celebrate Halloween as if it were just fun for the children.  The occultic reality of what goes on in many places remains hidden from many blissful believers in our churches.  Perhaps Cranfield was right in suggesting that [...]

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I’m interrupting the series on The Discouraged Preacher for a day, but will continue it tomorrow.  I was just interviewed by Guy Davies at The Exiled Preacher.  Since it took more than the 10 or 15 minutes I like to spend on a post, I think it can count as a day’s blogging!  Here’s the [...]

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On Saturday the 11th of October, I will be speaking at a conference/workshop in Dunstable. If you are not too far from there, it would be great to see you! If you’ve never heard of Dunstable, you probably live too far away! Understanding the Bible Workshop will be held at Langdale Church from 9:30-15:30. This [...]

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This is a series overviewing the 8-stage process of developing a sermon. Remember that for all related posts, you can click on the “Stage 2 – Passage Study” button in the menu to the right. Stage 2 – Passage Study Once you have selected your passage or passages for the message, the next task is [...]

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Syndication Feeds

I’ve changed the setting on the site to provide full text feeds for those who would like to use Google Reader or similar tools.

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Bob asked some helpful questions on yesterday’s post.  Generally an expository sermon will have “back then” and “today” stances because by definition an expository sermon needs to both explain and relevantly apply the text. So at a certain level the progress will typically go from then to now (allowing for the sermon to start in [...]

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For those preachers who live in south east England / Greater London area, please read on.  If this does not apply to you, then I hope I will be able to offer this seminar closer to you in the future. You will notice that I have added a page entitled “Seminar.”  I will be running [...]

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The way this blog is set up, only Mike and Peter are able to publish new posts. However, if you would like to add something to the site that is not a comment on a previous post, all is not lost! If you have a question, or a text you are wrestling with in preparation [...]

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Welcome to the blog

This is a simple concept – a blog for discussing anything related to preaching. We hope to generate discussion of how to preach specific Biblical passages, aspects of delivery, preaching theory and also book reviews. The goal is to stimulate better Biblical preaching. Let’s see where this goes . . .

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