The book of Judges teaches that when God’s people become like the world around them, the consequences are devastating.
Expository Preaching Should Never Be Boring
No sane person wants to sit under preaching that is boring. So, whenever we encourage people to value expository preaching, we ought to also explain to them why, by definition, expository preaching should not be irrelevant and dull.
In a sentence, expository preaching should not be boring because it is about showing how God’s timeless truth intersects with life today. If a particular sermon is just a survey of technical details and a lecture about the Ancient Near East, then that is not expository preaching.
Anything God Cannot Do?
How about a True or False question? See if you can get this one right.True or False, God can do anything but fail?
On Pastoral Search Committees
Arguably, the most strategic decision that a local church makes is calling a preaching pastor. When a local church calls a lead or senior pastor, they almost always want a pastor who will preach with excellence. Yet, often pastoral search committees do not know how to go about achieving that goal.
Unfortunately, there are essentially no resources available designed to help pastoral search committees / pulpit nominating committees succeed in calling an excellent preaching pastor.
Books and resources designed for pastoral search committees / pulpit nominating committees focus on areas other than preaching, and these areas are important. Yet preaching is the center of what their next pastor will do, and there is nothing available to help churches call a pastor who will preach with excellence.
You can read the below excerpt from my doctoral thesis which focused on developing a resource that will help local churches call a pastor who will preach with excellence. . . This is the introduction to my entire thesis – – it introduces the problem. So, it is written in a technical way – – It is not a portion of the manual I developed.
I am praying that the manual/resource I developed might serve a local church looking for their next preaching pastor.
Driscoll on Pastoral Burnout
See this important Mark Driscoll video on pastoral burnout: HT: Abraham Piper
RSS Feeds
If you are a reader of blogs, then this video will help you if you want to understand RSS Feeds.
Excerpt from John Piper’s Forthcoming Book
John Piper has posted an excerpt from his forthcoming book, The Future of Justification. HT: JT
Can We Trust the Gospels?
See Justin Taylor’s post regarding this important new book. Mark D. Roberts’s new book, Can We Trust the Gospels?: Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The New Perspective On Paul
Piper shares the testimony of one man’s journey regarding his understanding of the atonement.
Our Great Salvation
John Calvin said, For until men have so examined themselves, and learned how wretched and miserable they are, they will surely never yield God one hundredth part of the honour he deserves.”