Essays on Preaching (330)
  1. Whatever else may be said of Advent, it is above all devoted to making Christ known as the Lord who condescends to come as Brother to and Savior of sinners.
  2. The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
  3. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  4. Clarity enables mobility. When preachers make the message clear, the people of God are freed-up to follow Jesus.
  5. Jesus speaks His Word, and a new world order emerges, with the possibility of uniting disparate parties in the true faith.
  6. Strategic silence is a sanctified stall tactic which benefits both the preacher and the pew-sitter. It is not just dead air.
  7. We entered the hospital with a jumbled ball of questions, uncertainties, and anxieties. We left with a master class in effective communication.
  8. 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.
  9. The message of the gospel is a multifaceted diamond. Parallelism in preaching helps you to bring out the beauty of those different facets.
  10. The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s weekly sermon preparations.
  11. The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s regular long-range planning.
  12. Those first few words from the preacher’s mouth are worth their weight in spun gold.
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