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Interview Questions

July 28, 2010 14:13

I recently posted a series of responses to questions about preaching from John Brand of Encouraging Expository Excellence. In the interest of reciprocity, John asked me to respond to the same questions. Here is the result…

1. How did you disco...

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John Brand on Expository Preaching

June 18, 2010 18:39

Recently I introduced you to Rev. John Brand of Encouraging Expository Excellence out of Edinburgh, Scotland. In a recent email conversation, John offered these responses to some interesting questions about expository preaching.

1. Where do you plac...

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A Complete Unit of Thought

April 13, 2010 11:43

This past Sunday I heard my pastor, announce his text – Romans 9 – 11. Now that’s a lot of text!

“I know it’s a lot,” he said, “but it is a complete unit of thought.”

Aah, that ‘s the homiletician in him coming out, I thought to myself.

It was...

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Preaching as an Act of Worship

March 19, 2010 14:45

I spent some time yesterday talking with singer, songwriter, and worship leader Brian Doerksen. One of the things we talked about was the radical discontinuity between preaching and worship in most evangelical churches. Here is what I wrote about the subject in Ch...

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Joy to the World?

December 07, 2009 14:17

I appreciated this morning’s editorial from Christianity Today, just in time for Christmas. The article, titled, The Joy Driven Life points out the fact that Bible has an awful lot to say about joy.

“When believers do a little self-reflection, n...

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A Horrible Thing Has Happened...

December 03, 2009 18:57

One of my students preached from Jeremiah 5 in my class this week. Verses 2o and 31 say, “A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way....

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Exegeting the Congregation?

November 20, 2009 21:59

Tom Long in Daniel Overdorf’s excellent Applying the Sermon (Kregel 2009, p.117), nuances the idea of listener exegesis. He writes…

“In The Witness of Preaching, I argue against “exegeting the congregation.” One of my ...

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Have I Ever...

November 09, 2009 22:26

From Steven W. Smith’s Dying to Preach, a list of questions to test our approach to the Scriptures in our preaching…