From time to time, the Monday blues weigh on me so that I struggle with some depression as I face the fact that I’m just not that remarkable a preacher. Even when I hit a homerun, I’m pretty sure my sermon isn’t really making that big a difference in the real trials my hearers are […]
Continue reading →Scanning Facebook last week I saw a post from Monergism Books featuring an essay by local theologian, J.I. Packer. I sent the link to my Instapaper account to read later on my Kindle. (Yes, I’m a nerd.) I read the essay this morning. It’s one of the best things I’ve read this year so far. […]
Continue reading →What angels think of all preaching about Jesus: “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.” (Acts 5:20) http://esv.to/Acts5.20 They thought it makes people LIVE.
Continue reading →Mike McKinley just posted this fine quote (below) regarding the importance of prayer in faithful preaching. Obviously the pastor who prays is not a wimp! To preach the word, therefore, and not to follow it with constant and fervent prayer for its success, is to disbelieve its use, neglect its end, and to cast away […]
Continue reading →Perspicuity. Sufficiency. Infallibility. Inerrancy. These, says Tim Keller, are core beliefs every preacher must hold about the Bible. But once a preacher holds these beliefs with a good conscience, how does he move on to produce sermons that draw his hearers into greater depth of biblical theology, greater passion for the lost and most of […]
Continue reading →Okay, maybe that’s not what preachers should pray as we step into the pulpit, but most of us do pray something as we walk to the front of the room. I read this blog this morning and was reminded in a new way how important prayer is not just for the sermon delivery, but for […]
Continue reading →I recently wrote my seminary graduating essay on the topic of an evangel-driven (Gospel-driven) model of ministry that can help churches steer a middle road between the ditches of dead, doctrinal orthodoxy, on the one side, and numbers-driven pragmatism on the other. The idea that the Gospel should be the driving force behind church ministry is […]
Continue reading →Dr. Darryl Johnson, Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church in Vancouver, BC (http://www.firstbc.org/) spoke this morning to the Church Planting BC “cadre” on the subject of expositional preaching. In his presentation, he gave his “10 Convictions on Preaching”. Here they are… The living God has chosen the preaching of the Word as a primary means […]
Continue reading →When I served, a few years ago, as an associate pastor at a church in northern Alberta, I became friends there with the pastor of the local Baptist church. He was an interesting fellow: gifted in evangelism, able to study the New Testament in Greek, enjoyed hunting—a man’s man and a preacher’s preacher. But he […]
Continue reading →Due to popular demand (actually there were only, I think, 3 requests for this but I thought it seemed like a good idea) I have created a new section on Keruxai.com to make available audio recordings of the sermons I preach. Check it out here: http://historicism.com/blog/?page_id=124 or by clicking on “sermons” from the menu at […]
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