Beyond self-help chatter
David Neff describes what happens when preachers forget to connect a text to the bigger story and instead trivialize the text, as he discovered while visiting a church on vacation:
The Old Testament
theocentric
Two ways to read the Bible
Tim Keller writes:
Ed Clowney points out that if we ever tell a particular Bible story without putting it into the overall main Bible story (about Christ), we actually change the meaning of
Don’t short circuit texts
From an interview with Graeme Goldsworthy, author of Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture:
Biblical theology shows us that all texts do not have the same relationship to the Christian believer. What
Time spent in the study
Fred Craddock on the importance of study in a pastor's ministry:
Time spent in study is never getting away from daily work but getting into daily work. The hours of study
The sermon vs. the Word of God
Here's an interesting question. What gets more attention when we gather to worship: the sermon or the Word of God?Even in churches that emphasize the public reading of Scripture, I