There are three steps in hearing a sermon: understanding it, feeling it and acting on it. If we don’t understand what we hear, we don’t get the message. If we understand without feeling, without being affected, touched or moved, then the Word of God will have little effect on us. We will be hard-hearted.
But if […]
Homiletics. It’s the course in seminary that teaches one how to preach a sermon. Seminarians spend hours in homiletics classes learning the principles of Bible preaching, and then spend years after seminary honing the art through reading, seminars, and most importantly, weekly experience standing at the “sacred desk.”
But what about the rest of the church, those […]
This past week pastors Jeramie, Seth and Chris, and our Director of Ministry Support, Phil Cain, joined five thousdand other pastors, church leaders and seminarians in Louisville, Kentucky at an event called Together 4 the Gospel (T4G). There we heard eight messages on different dimensions of the “Good News”.
We found R.C. Sproul’s sermon ” The Curse motif of the Atonement” and John Piper’s […]
On February 5, 1978, I was a kid living in the warmth of the desert southwest. On that same day Boston was buried in the legendary Blizzard of ‘78. Just ask New Englanders where they were in “the blizzard,” and they will regale you with stories of towering snowdrifts, houses swept away by the storm […]
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