Essential Tools for Preaching Christ (Part 3)
When a man and a woman are engaged to be married they can hardly talk about anything else. In fact, we might suspect that something is wrong if they don’t…
Ryan McGraw
Book Review: God Is (Crossway)
Mark Jones, God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017). 240pp. Hardcover. $19.99. Many theologians have complained recently that Reformed theology has stressed…
Essential Tools for Preaching Christ (Part 2)
Sound exegesis is insufficient for sound preaching. This assertion might seem surprising in light of the popular resurgence of consecutive expository preaching. While we should welcome and encourage the shift…
Essential Tools for Preaching Christ (Part 1)
Owning a home brings blessings and liabilities with it. While a home can be a good investment it requires maintenance. Homeowners generally have two options in maintaining their homes: they…
Preaching and the Mission of the Trinity
Every divine work reflects God’s Triunity. This means that if we want to understand what God is doing in our lives we must begin with who God is. The Father…
Aiming to Preach with Aims
We need to hear Christ in order to believe in him for salvation (Rom. 10:14). Ordinarily we hear his voice through his ordained ambassadors as they preach the gospel in…
How Then Should We Preach?
However well constructed and attractive, a car is useless without fuel. On the flip side, a motor may have fuel without being a vehicle. Likewise, preaching is a vehicle that…
The Necessity of Preaching
Salvation is an expansive term. It essentially means “safety.” Salvation includes the application of Christ’s work from the new birth, through faith and repentance, to Justification, adoption, sanctification, and glorification.…
Preaching Christology or Preaching Christ: What is Preaching?
Good teaching begins with definitions. Effective schoolteachers tell their students what they are doing and why in order help students learn well. This often means defining terms specific to each…