Don’t Disagree but….
I don’t disagree with what Sean says; but I repeat: the `aha’ moment is not application; it is not the end point of the sermon; it is not sufficient in itself to communicate the imperative; it certainly is not where…
Month March 2010
What will happen to pro-life Democrats?
Representative Bart Stupack (D-MI) has been leading an important fight to keep tax payers from being forced by the federal government to fund abortions. It is yet to be seen whether or not he and others will be successful. From…
Running to Bethlehem
Okay, I’ll take the bait. Carl just wrote, “If the game is simply to get from Text A to Bethlehem, what do you do with a book like Judges? Preach 200 sermons which essentially say, ‘This judge failed, but surprise,…
Slouching to Bethlehem
Derek’s comments on a certain kind of Reformed preaching are spot on. If the game is simply to get from Text A to Bethlehem, what do you do with a book like Judges? Preach 200 sermons which essentially say `This…
Slouching to Bethlehem
Derek’s comments on a certain kind of Reformed preaching are spot on. If the game is simply to get from Text A to Bethlehem, what do you do with a book like Judges? Preach 200 sermons which essentially say `This…
Preaching again…
Further to my last post, my good friend Dr. John Ross (Dumisani Theological Institute, King William’s Town, SA), made the following insightful comment: “I fully agree it is pushing the envelope to say that a meaningful encounter with God happens…
Boys to Men
From an article by Dr. Vern Poythress entitled “How I Have Helped My Boys to Become Christian Men”: Almost every culture in the world has something to mark the difference between a boy and a man. A boy goes through…
More on Barthian preaching
Further to Carl’s comments on Barthian preaching… Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Barthian preaching is their belief that something happens in preaching that happens nowhere else. Lacking an authoritative epistemological base, Barthians assume the posture all too common elsewhere…
MDB 50: 2 Cor 11
2 Cor 11:28And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. The apostle Paul was a burdened man. He was not burdened in the sense that he carried a burden…
The Mystery Source Is….
Karl Barth, as correctly identified by James from Edinburgh, who also raises the question as to why Barthian preaching is, by contrast with the quotation, often deathly dull. My theory is that neo-orthodox writing on preaching is often brilliant because…