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Joel Hunt posted a new activity comment: 9 months, 1 week ago

In reply to: Kent created the group Constructing the Sermon View

AMEN!!!
Joel Hunt posted a new activity comment: 9 months, 1 week ago

In reply to: Kent posted an update in the group Constructing the Sermon: I’m working on a tutoring session with a pastor right now. He’s done a fabulous job working through the text, explaining issues as the come, but there is […] View

Sometimes there is within Scripture more than Man can comprehend nor place within their banks of Human Knowledge. Allow Him to speak and ourselves the opportunity to bear witness to the Word. Nothing more…
Joel Hunt posted a new activity comment: 9 months, 1 week ago

In reply to: Roger Helland posted an update in the group Constructing the Sermon: Struggling to know a balance between scholarship and spirituality when it comes to preaching the Bible. Often we are taught and I see practiced, […] View

Everything begins with prayer. Everything ends with prayer. What goes on between these two poles is what God wants from you to have in your heart. You keep it there by living it. Pray during the whole preparation time. No such thing as to much prayer.
Joel Hunt posted a new activity comment: 9 months, 1 week ago

In reply to: Revd Kate Bruce posted an update in the group Constructing the Sermon: Spent a big chink of time today wrestling with John 11.1.45 – massive chunk of text – raises all kinds of big questions, not least .. I wonder […] View

Kate, you are onto something. Keep asking!! That is one way the Holy Spirit moves us into the ”slot” He wants us to dive into. It is these kinds of questions that interest others and thus capture their attention as the Gospel becomes more clear to them in your words from God.
Joel Hunt commented on the blog post Angst About Alliteration 9 months, 1 week ago

I also feel that these alliterations are not effective in speaking. However, in the defense of an OUTLINE they keep the flow going. Does one HAVE to bring out the outline each time a message is given? Naw! I like it because it’s a place in my prepared message that I can go to another [...]
Joel Hunt commented on the blog post Why You Might be an Ear-Tickling Preacher 9 months, 1 week ago

Good thought. I am on the border in the fact that I have to preach something that doesn’t conform to many of the Baptist around me. The topic is the Security of the Believer. To often, the congregation believe that regardless of what they do they are “immune” to punishment from God. They feel “Once [...]