Tag Preaching

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Preparing Sermons with John Owen

After a cracking day at the Evangelical Library in London on “Reading John Owen” (opening, it has to be said, with Nigel Graham giving what may be one of the finest popular introductions to the life of Owen that it…

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The Need for a Ministerial Break Down

“We keep our preaching basic because we have so many new believers. If we give them too much doctrine, they won’t be able to understand it.” I can’t remember how many times I’ve heard church planters and pastors say such things.…

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What Andy Stanley Has Forgotten

What Andy Stanley has forgotten is that conversion to Christianity involves a supernatural rebirth that requires the Word of God. Forgetting this essential truth has been the tendency of the seeker-sensitive church-growth movement. This vital truth is forgotten wherever sociology is…

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The Missing Message

While preparing talks for a forthcoming Reformation Conference, I happened across Heiko Oberman’s outstanding 1961 Theology Today lecture, “Preaching and the Word in the Reformation,” in which he set down what he believed to have been the three most important…