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- Overly Narrow Application of a Principle by Biblical Preaching on Nov 26, 2009
I’d like to build a little on the post from three days ago. Here is a post I wrote a while back, but am fairly sure I forgot to post on the site. It offers another angle on the challenges of application, again overtly leaning on Haddon Robi...
- 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.
- 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...
- Forging Connections by Biblical Preaching on Nov 5, 2009
Perhaps preaching could be defined as a work of forging connections. In a world of increasingly independent and disconnected individuals relating often on a level of billiard balls (bouncing and bumping, but not connecting), the preacher’s ta...
- 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...
- Study Bibles and Studying the Bible by Biblical Preaching on Oct 28, 2009
We are starting to hear about the 2011 edition of the NIV Bible, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the original King James Version. King James may not have really “authorised” the often called Authorised Version, but he wa...
