Monday Musings

Relevant Preaching

“As a preacher, I think a lot about relevance. Why should anyone listen to what I have to say? Why […]

“By expounding Scripture as a whole he was forced to deal with the Scriptural range of ideas. And, as an

“When John Wesley was asked what he would do if he knew he were to die that night, he said

“The Church must always be, if she is really to be the Church, a confessional Church. She must believe in

“You have nothing in and of yourself. You and I are made of clay and spit. Any holiness of ours

“We are confessing the gospel: That God himself has provided a Redeemer who died, the just for the unjust, to

“Authentic expository preaching takes the presentation of the Word of God as its central aim. The purpose of the preacher

“Reflecting poetically on the urgency and centrality of preaching, the Puritan pastor, Richard Baxter once remarked, ‘I Preach’d, as never

“Put the advance of the gospel at the center of your aspirations. Our own comfort, our bruised feelings, our reputations,

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that

“Martin Luther once said that the Bible is like a lion. If people criticize it, you don’t defend it–you let

A Minister’s Prayer O My LORD, Let not my ministry be approved only by men, or merely win the esteem