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 the gospel the way Jesus and the apostles did. Theirs was not a message of …
Over 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 going on within the scriptures. But after leaving that church and studying under this new …
There are many different kinds of expositional preaching. The four most common are: verse-by-verse, thematic, narrative, and topical.
There 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 believe women should not serve as pastors and that the Bible places restrictions on the …
“…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 old cat’s fur the wrong way. Upsetting apple carts. Expect it.
A 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 holiness. There is a warning being issued from heaven to remain steadfast, be faithful to …
Puritan 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 its natural sense; and to apply, if you have the gift, the doctrines to the …
