Essays on Preaching (300)
  1. In meditating on these sacred texts, pastors will then be equipped for doctrinal preaching that edifies and exhorts God’s holy people in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
  2. A skillful preacher will scour the text for such gospel gateways, even gateways as narrow as three letters.
  3. All sinners hunger for the assurance that Christ did not die in vain but for them.
  4. All proper sermons will bring auditors spatially from the spaces and things posited in their imagination to a living encounter with Christ at the altar.
  5. Who would have expected that God is a God of surprises?
  6. Preaching comprises a whole panoply of hard-won skills. We shortcut this process to our peril.
  7. The Church does leave her mark on the nations wherein she resides but in many cases the Church survives and outlives the nation.
  8. Wrestling alone puts us always at a disadvantage and every wrestling face-off needs a referee. Pastors are called to be such referees for their people.
  9. What preachers deliver to their hearers is not just one or another gift, a present or two that enriches life. Preachers also deliver the very presence of the Lord.
  10. By making a big deal of every baptism, of every confirmation, of every rite of matrimony, the Church takes a stand against the intrusion of consumerism, secularism, identity politics, subversive subcultures, gender dysphoria, and the like.
  11. The conference ministry tent is typically regarded as a spot to make connections, kill time, or scrounge empty calories. What I found out is how the ministry tent is an unexpected gold mine for Gospel proclamation.
  12. Speaking from years of ministerial experience, Reed names the tests that will try the pastor’s heart and he knows the means by which a pastor’s heart can be strengthened.
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