Wednesday is for Prayer I’m changing my preaching calendar. After yesterday’s post some might think that once the “preaching calendar” is set it is then unchangeable, set in stone. Not true. A preacher is constantly praying and thinking over new information and new things that he has come to understand and periodically he will still … More Prayer and Preaching’s Connection
Tuesday is for Preaching Had an experience this past week that confirmed again the effectiveness of a rigorous plan with regard to a preaching calendar. For years, I have advocated to my students that they plan six months to a year ahead. I preached a message last week on a text that was selected and … More “How Did You Know I Need this Message Today?”
Preaching is important. People need the sustaining Word of God not the tepid moralizing of topical advice, but the authoritative preaching of the living Word of God. for more see: Passionate Proclamation of the Gospel is Not the Job of the Pastor (only).
“I would have all lazy students drummed out of the college and all lazy ministers out of the Assembly. I would have laziness held to be the one unpardonable sin in all our students and in all our ministers. . . . We have plenty of time for all our work did we husband our … More If You Aren’t Willing to Work Hard, Stop Preaching and Get a New Job
Weekend Links Ambassadors of a Beaten Down Church: Pastors and their Preaching (Paul Tripp — good advice from a trusted source.) How Demons are Like the NSA (Fascinating bit of analysis that plays out both theologically and politically.) Six Ways Small Churches Can Love Their Communities (And for some practical examples and stories of people … More Beaten Pastors; Demons and the NSA; Small Churches; Clutter and the Mind
Tuesday is for Preaching I read an atheist site that was grading church worship services and sermons based on the following criteria: Doing good to your fellow human. Being good doesn’t mean converting him or her to your religion. It means being nice, forgiving, reasonable, and tolerant. Religious leaders who include this theme in their sermon … More Should Pastors Follow the Advice of Atheists?
Sunday Musings And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 36 And as they were going along the road they came to … More The Advantage of a Literate Christian Witness
Tuesday is for Preaching Mother’s Day is coming this weekend and I thought it might be a good time to give a message on parenting and the job description of children. Here are some of the opening lines to my message this week. (Watseka, IL campus will have a guest speaker; Ashkum, IL campus will … More The Hardest Job in the World
Sunday Musings “Air is not more necessary to the lungs than prayer is to the preacher.” —-E.M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer
Tuesday is for Preaching The devil will let a man prepare a sermon if that will keep him from preparing himself. —Vance Havner Men, it is too easy, to fall for the trap of the evil one. He is a liar, the father of lies, a deceiver from the beginning, a defiler and confuser of the … More Worthless Preaching and Preachers Who Preach without Worth
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