Here’s my usual weekly round up of preaching related gems on the www
Resolve has a link to a thoughtful piece by Sam Storm called ‘An Appeal to All Pastors: Why and How Should We Preach.’
Peter Mead’s Biblical Preaching site is always full of good material. Recently he challenged preachers, saying ‘Let us preach to the glory of God, but not hide behind that motivation as an excuse for irrelevant or application free sermons.’
Paul Lamey at Expository Thoughts has been wrestling with the issue of expository preaching and discussion: While discussion is excellent even essential at the right time, we should still remember that preaching is a “live” event in which the Word of God is to be heralded (2 Tim. 4:2) not discussed.
Also at Expository Thoughts, Caleb Kolstad draws comparisons between some preaching and pancake syrup.
Unashamed Workman points us to a useful article in Evangelicals Now by Tom Seidler, entitled, ‘Where are all the Elders?’
Don’t miss Michael Mckinley’s Defence of long, boring sermons
Between Two Worlds links to some advice on choosing commentaries for your library and Denver Seminary’s NT exegesis bibliography.
Just this morning I received in the post a free gift. With the generous permission of Dr. Arturo Azurdia III, Monergism is giving away for free an 81-part lecture series on the Book of Revelation in MP3 format on 2 CDs. You only cover the cost of shipping. Go on! You know you want to!
A Prayer of George Whitefield:
““Yea…that we shall see the great Head of the Church once more . . . raise up unto Himself certain young men whom He may use in this glorious employ. And what manner of men will they be? Men mighty in the Scriptures, their lives dominated by a sense of the greatness, the majesty and holiness of God, and their minds and hearts aglow with the great truths of the doctrines of grace. They will be men who have learned what it is to die to self, to human aims and personal ambitions; men who are willing to be ‘fools for Christ’s sake’, who will bear reproach and falsehood, who will labor and suffer, and whose supreme desire will be, not to gain earth’s accolades, but to win the Master’s approbation when they appear before His awesome judgment seat. They will be men who will preach with broken hearts and tear-filled eyes, and upon whose ministries God will grant an extraordinary effusion of the Holy Spirit, and who will witness ‘signs and wonders following’ in the transformation of multitudes of human lives.”
