{"id":34490,"date":"2022-09-10T21:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/back-page-pulpit-the-ones-that-werent\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:30:42","slug":"back-page-pulpit-the-ones-that-werent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/back-page-pulpit-the-ones-that-werent\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Page Pulpit: The Ones that Weren&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have noticed by now&#8212;because I&#8217;ve told you already&#8212;this issue marks the completion of 25 years of publication. During those 25 years, we&#8217;ve had lots of great articles, interviews and sermons.<\/p>\n<p>However, as I finish the editorial process for this milestone issue, I am thinking not of the articles that have appeared, but of all those interesting articles and sermons we never had a chance to publish. Despite the potential of making lots of my preacher friends mad&#8212;something I&#8217;ve done with remarkable regularity for a quarter century&#8212;here are some of the items we never quite got the chance to publish.<\/p>\n<p>For example, there was&#8230;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;John MacArthur&#8217;s famous sermon, &#8220;Oops. I was wrong&#8221;;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Rick Warren&#8217;s landmark article, &#8220;A Call for More Traditional Worship&#8221;; and<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Haddon Robinson&#8217;s fascinating piece, &#8220;Time for Some <em>Little<\/em> Idea Preaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If only we could have published&#8230;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;George Barna&#8217;s article &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care What Anybody Else Says. Here&#8217;s What I Think&#8221;;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Billy Graham&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;Why I Became an Evangelist&#8212;So I Could Avoid Deacon&#8217;s Meetings&#8221;; and<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Chuck Swindoll&#8217;s funeral message, &#8220;Insight for De-Living.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you like to have read&#8230;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Ed Young, Jr.&#8217;s article, &#8220;Put All that Stuff Away and Just Preach&#8221;;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Tim LaHaye&#8217;s well-known sermon, &#8220;When Theology Gets Left Behind&#8221;; and<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Andy Stanley&#8217;s ground-breaking article, &#8220;Creating a Satellite Church on Your iPhone&#8221;? <\/p>\n<p>Then there were those other amazing offerings that never made it to print&#8230;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;John Piper on &#8220;Why I Believe in Topical Preaching&#8221;;<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Mark Driscoll&#8217;s famous article, &#8220;Forget Seattle. I&#8217;m Moving to Atlanta&#8221;; and<br \/>&#8226;&nbsp;Who could forget Tim Keller&#8217;s autobiographical sermon, &#8220;Just a Small Town Preacher&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Just thinking about it makes me look forward to all the similar items we won&#8217;t get a chance to publish during the next 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/back-page-pulpit-the-ones-that-werent\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have noticed by now&#8212;because I&#8217;ve told you already&#8212;this issue marks the completion of 25 years of publication. During those 25 years, we&#8217;ve had lots of great articles, interviews and sermons. However, as I finish the editorial process for this milestone issue, I am thinking not of the articles that have appeared, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/back-page-pulpit-the-ones-that-werent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back Page Pulpit: The Ones that Weren&#8217;t&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}