Is There Room for Doubt in The Pulpit?
By Adam Brown – “If you don’t believe it, don’t preach it.” This statement seems reasonable. Necessary even. It does not seem possible for a preacher of God’s Word to…
Category: Theology of Preaching
Why Do the Hard Work of Exposition?
By Angie Brown – [Originally posted at Discerning Daughters on November 2, 2017] “Your story and my story might have the power to amuse someone or impress someone, even inspire…
Preaching with Emotional Impact
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…
Impact versus Application
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,…
Relevant Preaching (Pt 3)
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…
Relevant Preaching (Pt 2)
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?…
Relevant Preaching (Pt 1)
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…
Summary: Preaching Christ
The whole Bible is about Jesus. When we preach the Bible, therefore, our first movement from any preaching text must always be toward Christ. When we skip this crucial step,…
