Sourced by The Gospel Coalition Every Christian loves the gospel. By definition, you cannot have a Christian who isn’t shaped by and saved by the gospel. So three cheers for the gospel. Make that 3 million cheers. But let’s preach…
Continue ReadingOver the past couple of months, I have been studying under a well-known pastor. Before this, I was getting my sermons from a local Christian which preached topically. From this, you couldn’t really grasp the full context of what is…
Continue ReadingThere are many different kinds of expositional preaching. The four most common are: verse-by-verse, thematic, narrative, and topical.
Continue ReadingThere is perhaps no more hotly debated issue in the church today than the issue of women serving as pastors/preachers. As a result, it is very important to not see this issue as men versus women. There are women who…
Continue Reading“…according to my gospel, for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal…” (2 Timothy 2:9) Pot-stirring: To take a stand on a controversial issue. Known colloquially as “opening a can of worms.” Rocking the boat. Rubbing the…
Continue ReadingA call is going out to the pastors in America. Don’t give in to the temptation to compromise the Word of God for a greater following. Don’t allow the allure of the platform to distract you from preaching righteousness and…
Continue ReadingPuritan theologian William Perkins wrote that preaching “has four great principles: to read the text distinctly, from canonical Scripture; to give it sense and understanding according to the Scripture itself; to collect a few profitable points of doctrine out of…
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