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Stage 8 – Message Details: Introductions
First impressions matter. In the first moments of a message, listeners are making numerous decisions about the speaker. Some of those are conscious, many subconscious. Is this worth listening to, can I...
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Do We Preach a Distant God?
Yesterday I made a passing reference to the fact that our God is not the deity of the deists. That is to say that He didn’t wind things up and then sit back disinterested with His arms folded. Before...
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Beware Special Revelation Preaching
I need to be careful how I phrase this post. Depending on our theology, we all have slightly differing views of how much God directly communicates with us. Some are very hesitant to hint that God...
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Do We Get It Backwards?
Here’s a provocative quote from Charles Kraft: The amount of crucial information involved in Christianity is, I believe, quite small. The amount of Christian behavior demanded in response to all that...
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Examining the Extent of Explanation
Biblical preachers should study to a higher level than they preach. In the days, or even weeks, that we have to study a passage in anticipation of preaching it, we should probe and study and push and...
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Preacher, What Is Your Role?
Donald Sunukjian’s short definition of preaching is “Listen to what is God saying . . . to us?” Simple, maybe overly so, but helpful nonetheless. Preaching is something about God speaking through His...
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