New software can tell if you are mean and ugly.
Facial recognition, of course, is being used for everything from photo tagging to law enforcement and computer logins these days. This software takes the practice a step further in a high-tech continuation of research aimed at connectingfacial shape and features to personality and character.
Sinclair Ferguson on a preacher’s 10 Commandments. Justin Taylor outlines the high points here.
Yet we are responsible to make progress as preachers, indeed evident and visible, or at least audible progress (1 Tim 4:13, 15is an instructive and searching word in this respect!).All of this led me while traveling one day to reflect on this: What Ten Commandments, what rule of preaching-life, do I wish someone had written for me to provide direction, shape, ground rules, that might have helped me keep going in the right direction and gaining momentum in ministry along the way?
Erik Raymond on the value of preaching the gospel to yourself.
Preaching the gospel to yourself is not just a mind exercise. You are not to be just reciting facts without the engagement of your heart. The gospel is to stir our minds with theological truth but that stirring also is like a divine oar in the water of our hearts, as it stirs us with rich gospel happiness.
Mark Dever on why he’s committed to expository preaching.
1-Expositional Preaching from 9Marks on Vimeo.
