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The following 11 entries are posted in the "Imagery, Story, and Illustration" category.
January 21, 2008 10:57
My friend and mentor, Grant Lovejoy, sent me a link this morning to the new website for Chronological Bible Storying. The website offers the methodology, research, and reports from the field into this powerful way of preaching to oral and indigenous cultures.
...October 29, 2007 16:28
Yesterday my wife participated in our pastor’s sermon by illustrating his sermon with a simultaneous sermon painting. What’s that, you ask? Let me try to explain.
Brian Stewart was preaching from Philippians 2:15 about how we are to shine as ...
October 23, 2007 19:48
I had a fantastic opportunity today to sit in on a class taught by Tony Alcantar at the Vancouver Academy of the Dramatic Arts (VADA). Tony is a veteran Christian actor and comedian out of the Second City environment who is tired of listening to preachers who unde...
August 27, 2007 14:34
There are times when the sermon comes easily. Everything flows and you know exactly what it is that God would have you say. At other times, however, the ideas come as slow as molasses (“in January” as a friend of mine used to say). I had one of those m...
July 06, 2007 12:03
Bruce Seymour has written a helpful little book on story-telling for pastors. The book is simple and easy to read. It is chock-full of examples that flesh out what the author is talking about.
As many have observed, stories are the currency of our cultur...
April 23, 2007 11:46
It’s good to be back from my journeys, though things are going to be very intense for a few days yet as it is regional convention time for my denomination.
I thought I would share some hi-lights from Calvin Miller’s theme address as the Inter...
April 02, 2007 12:49
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing my good friend, Dr. John Auxier preach. John is Dean of Trinity Western University and an expert in marriage and family counseling. He is also a very fine preacher.
His sermon was taken from John 11 and 12, focusin...
February 13, 2007 11:38
Have you ever noticed how we sometimes use stories and illustrations as a way of redeeming ourselves through our preaching? I’m not just a preacher. I’m a human and as such, I find myself messing up in life. Most times these things are relatively minor...
January 05, 2007 13:50
Some excerpts from N.T. Wright’s The New Testament and the People of God (Fortress Press, 1992).
“This runs contrary to the popular belief that a story is there to ‘illustrate’ some point or orther which can in principle be stated without ...
November 01, 2006 12:58
A few days ago, while visiting a town fair, I saw a woman reading poetry to a solitary listener in the middle of a crowd. The sight was striking given that large numbers of people, myself included, were finding their way past and around these two who were taking t...
August 10, 2006 14:53
Traditionally, sermon illustration has been understood as adding raisins to one’s oatmeal. The theory is that the oatmeal is the nutritious part of the meal, but it isn’t all that tasty. If we want people to be able to choke it down we need to add some...