As mentioned previously, thinking about God is required if we are to love God. As preachers we do not want to foster cold, heartless thinking. Rather, we want our people…

As we have explored the past three weeks, application-based sermons fail to achieve the transformation they seek. Why? There are many reasons, four that we will briefly articulate here. One,…

We live in an instant, give-it-to-me now culture. We expect to consume material goods, people, and information at an alarming rate. We want slogans and soundbites, how-to’s and should-do’s. We…

This idea, that applying a text is not the preacher’s responsibility, requires a little further explanation. If applying the text is not the preacher’s responsibility, then whose responsibility is it?…

There is a lot of talk these days about the need to be relevant in our preaching. On one level this is pure common sense and self evident. An irrelevant…