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- Excessive Abstractions and Principles Too General by Biblical Preaching on Nov 23, 2009
Preaching an ancient text to a contemporary congregation will usually require some level of abstraction. To preach an ancient instruction simply as it stands is to present a historical lecture, rather than a relevant presentation of inspired truth.
- Of Bifurcations and Dichotomies by Biblical Preaching on Nov 18, 2009
Most people have a tendency to think in black and white categories. Something is either right or wrong, good or bad. In order to get from the complex world of reality to the comfortable world of clear categories, we tend to bifurcate inappropriat...
- Preaching Longer Narratives – Part 2 by Biblical Preaching on Nov 10, 2009
Yesterday I began to respond to Anthony’s question about preaching longer narratives: How do you handle the tension of wanting to tell the story as it was intended to be told and not wanting to overload the hearers? We saw that how a story is t...
- Preaching Longer Narratives by Biblical Preaching on Nov 9, 2009
Anthony asked the following after one of the posts last week: I preach only occasionally, and have tackled a couple of narrative passages recently. I like to respect the narrative chunks in the text, which often have a clear beginning, middle and end...
- What Is The Motivation . . . by Biblical Preaching on Nov 6, 2009
Do you ever wonder what someone’s motivation might be? For example, I was thinking about a man I once knew who never read anything except the Bible. His preaching bore the fruit. Some might say that his preaching was biblically saturated...
- Textual Tone – Deduce, Demonstrate, Declare by Biblical Preaching on Nov 4, 2009
Each text in the Bible has a tone. We are often oblivious to it. Our training in Bible school tends to focus on analysis of content. Most sermons tend to train listeners to look at content (or perhaps to largely ignore the text and just bounce...
- Narrative Breaking Series by Biblical Preaching on Nov 3, 2009
A story is a story. It should be studied as a story and understood as a story. But what about when you are preaching part of a story? For instance, take the book of Ruth. I had to preach just part of that story on Sunday. It’s not eas...
