Essays on Preaching (301)
  1. Clarity enables mobility. When preachers make the message clear, the people of God are freed-up to follow Jesus.
  2. Jesus speaks His Word, and a new world order emerges, with the possibility of uniting disparate parties in the true faith.
  3. Strategic silence is a sanctified stall tactic which benefits both the preacher and the pew-sitter. It is not just dead air.
  4. We entered the hospital with a jumbled ball of questions, uncertainties, and anxieties. We left with a master class in effective communication.
  5. Hymns were a means by which people were brought into direct contact with the Gospel that brought justifying faith. Set to music, they could readily memorize it, take it home with them, and rehearse its messages around the hearth and at work.
  6. The message of the gospel is a multifaceted diamond. Parallelism in preaching helps you to bring out the beauty of those different facets.
  7. Preaching which eschews the harping harangues of legalistic schoolmarms in favor of the Savior’s undeserved favor reflects the holy hilarity of the Gospel.
  8. The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s weekly sermon preparations.
  9. In Haidt’s findings, we have plenty to learn as preachers who are proclaiming God’s Word to His Body in its varied composition of reds, blues, and other hues.
  10. The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s regular long-range planning.
  11. Those first few words from the preacher’s mouth are worth their weight in spun gold.
  12. The pastor, then, possesses the prerogative of calling the children to himself, in the stead of Christ and after the manner of Christ, to particularly bless them with the Word.
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