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The beautiful brochure in the mail invited me to a seminar on technology which would communicate effectively to a visually oriented congregation. I considered finding two hundred dollars for registration, but would we mature better or minister more effectively with more multimedia techniques? Is being on the cutting edge of the latest available visual appeal … Continue reading “Why I Still Preach”

Generations ago biographical sermons based on biblical characters were a basic staple of the church’s preaching diet. Frederick B. Meyer is remembered best for his preaching on such Old Testament characters as Abraham, David, Joshua, and Jeremiah. Classic homiliticians such as Andrew Blackwood extolled the virtues of the biographical sermon.1However, more recently, hermeneutical criticisms of … Continue reading “Salvaging the Old Testament Biographical Sermon”

“Beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He [Jesus] interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures” (Luke 24:27).There are probably many reasons for the lack of preaching Christ from the Old Testament, ranging from the difficulty of doing so to a lack of interest. We shall analyze three sets of possible … Continue reading “The Necessity of Preaching Christ from the Old Testament”

For more than a quarter-century, Adrian Rogers has been pastor of the historic Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. A church that had become a major force in the Southern Baptist Convention, the congregation had been in decline for two decades before Rogers’ arrival. Today it is one of the largest churches in the nation, … Continue reading “Preaching and Church Growth: An Interview with Adrian Rogers”

The message of the New Testament draws heavily on the concepts of newness and renewal. Nearly three dozen New Testament passages discuss “new” things — new wine, new commandment, new creation, new song and new Jerusalem, to name a few.The New Testament’s references to the new involve four adjectives, two of which are predominant, kainos … Continue reading “Preaching: A Ministry of Newness”

Frequently, new pastors or recent seminary graduates ask me “What should I be reading in the area of preaching?” I usually interact with a few questions to learn about what homiletical education they’ve had, what kind of preaching they do and what they perceive to be their strengths and weaknesses. That way I can “prescribe” … Continue reading “First Reads in Preaching: An Annotated Bibliography”

Several months before we moved to our new church building in 1998, our ministry staff met at the new site for a special staff meeting. Most of the building still wasn’t carpeted, and some of the rooms still had no drywall. We handed out hard hats, magic markers and a few Bibles.We instructed staff members … Continue reading “Preaching and Applying Truth”

The primary problem with contemporary preaching is its silence in regard to the moral dimension of the “Christian gospel. We believe it is the single most neglected dimension of the Christian message as proclaimed from our nation’s pulpits.We are not saying that the moral dimension is completely absent. The preaching literature reveals some attention to … Continue reading “Reclaiming The Moral Dimension of Preaching”

It’s been a number of years since I graduated from seminary. As I look back, I would have given almost anything for any one of the programs in this year’s Software Review. This year’s batch of software is a little different. We have a couple of returns but mostly we have new programs to share. … Continue reading “Preaching & PC’s: The 2000 Review of Software for Preachers”

The presidential nominating conventions have just concluded, marking the beginning of the fall campaign. As I watched the conventions (yes, networks, I was one of the 37 people who actually tuned in this year), I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if television covered a church service the way it covers the party conventions.Pastor: … Continue reading “Conventional Wisdom”