Look at your sermons over the last year… All of them… Look at what you celebrated… Look at the ethical demands in your sermons…
Month: December 2017
Who creates a sermon? My homiletics professor, Dr. Brad Braxton, said, “You can’t write a sermon down because a sermon is an event.” You can’t write down an event. You can write down some notes that help you deliver one side of
First Step… What is the Text Saying… Sometimes we jump to Commentaries… Sometimes we jump to dictionaries…
A while ago I was listening to a football coach. He said, “To have to Punt is not a mistake. Throwing an interception to keep from punting is a mistake.” If you know football…
There are two kinds of texts that are very hard to exegete and preach. The first are those that you have read so often, you think you already know what it is about. The second are those from obscure portions of scripture
Abram’s folk were on a trip from Ur of the Chaldeans to Canaan. But they stopped on the way… They didn’t get to Canaan because they stopped in Haran. The Bible says they settled there. (Genesis 11:31) They were on their way