Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
Yesterday I was blessed to be able to spend some time with some friends listening to a series of lectures by Don Carson on the Primacy of Expository Preaching. There was much to challenge me–and the others too, I trust. Before teaching on the primacy of expository preaching, DAC taught for a while on the [...]
If you’re in any sort of ministry in the church, I would recommend that you go and download the messages from the Basics Conference. In particular, Piper’s messages, Begg’s first message (he hasn’t preached the second one yet), and Tim Challies’ breakout session are worth your time. If I tried to write out all the [...]
This coming Monday is the final monthly meeting of the Toronto Pastors Fellowship for the 2008-2009 season. While I’m sad that it will be over for the next several months, I can’t wait for Monday to come, because the paper will be great! I’ve just had a chance to read over Pastor Darryl Dash’s [...]
My friend Nick Hill sent me some information on an event being hosted by Richview Baptist Church (where another friend, Darryl Dash, pastors). Richview will be hosting a ‘Workshop on Biblical Preaching‘ from March 25-27, 2009. The featured speakers will be David Short and David Helm (author of The Big Picture Story Bible). While I’ve [...]
I’ve been thinking about preaching a fair bit over the past week or so. In particular, I got to wondering, What are the fundamental differences between preaching and lecturing? I wonder if it would be safe to say that one of the most basic differences lies in the responsibility for understanding. Here’s what I mean. [...]
This semester I was able to take Homiletics 2 at TBS. I have much to learn and much room to grow in the realm of preaching, so I was happy to take this course. One of the great conversations we had in class this year was on the topic of the need to be preaching [...]
Recently for my homiletics class, I was given the assignment of interviewing my favourite pastor/preacher on the topic of sermon preparation and preaching. I’ll post some of the excerpts here. If it should strike you as interesting (and if you’re a preacher, it should!), then you can download the whole interview transcript here. Let me [...]
Bryan Chapell offers this important and instructive insight into whether it is more arrogant to preach the exlusivity of Christ, or to not preach the exclusivity of Christ. The criteria for whether the real arrogance is in preaching or not preaching, he argues, is whether or not the proclamation is true. Proclaiming the message of [...]
The further along in the book of James we go, the more points there are when I think, ‘…Huh?’ It’s a bizarre experience to look ahead in the book, know that there are only a few weeks left to finish the last chapter and a half, and realize that you don’t really understand what they [...]
There are benefits and drawbacks to preaching large portions of text. The benefits are too numerous to get into, but one of the drawbacks is that you don’t get to stop and to meditate for as long as you’d like on a single thought expressed in your passage, because there are so many other things [...]
Yesterday, by God’s grace, I was able to begin our summer series of sermons from the book of James. I’ve titled this series ‘A Call to Consistency.’ I figure that’s about as close as I can get to a base theme that unites all the different emphases in James. Doug Moo refers to it as [...]
I love Scripture because it boldly declares. It doesn’t go around tip-toeing and trying to qualify everything. There are profound tensions in Scripture, but rather than attempting to soften them, or thinking that we need to explain them away, I think we need to embrace them and let them speak to us. For most modern [...]
Les Jumeaux posted this link a little while ago, and I immediately checked it out. It was only on my second or third perusal of the list that I realized just how much of an awesome resource this is. Here is a listing of all the free online D.A. Carson sermons that these guys have [...]
This past weekend I was extremely humbled and blessed to be invited to preach at the Winter Retreat for the Nipissing University / Canadore College Christian Fellowship. We gathered on Friday evening at Camp Kahquah in Magnetawan, ON. As a group, they’re studying The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges this year, so they asked [...]
Sometimes I think I brag about the work that God is doing in our church too much. But then I get to speaking with brothers from other churches who are caught up in programs and boards and committees and all that stuff and they are so negative about church… it really makes me sad. They [...]
Tim Challies has been live-blogging the T4G Conference. There have been many interesting posts (from many interesting messages), but this one from John MacArthur caught my eye. John, in his message, was discussing 40 years of gospel ministry at his church. He identifies several benefits from expository preaching in the church: Having discussed the benefit [...]
Kerux has been preaching a new-year’s mini-series on “the Authentic Church” from Acts 2.42-47 (you can hear this morning’s sermon–#2 in the series–here). This has been particularly insightful in light of so much of the debate spurred on by those of emergent persuasion on what counts as “authenticity.” The Authentic Christian Church is one which [...]
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