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Show, Don’t Tell
As I have been grading sermons these past days (about 25 of them since middle of last week with about 10 to go) I often find myself writing “Show, Don’t Tell.”
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November 22, 2017
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Preaching in Public
We preach in our churches but in the larger sense we are always preaching in public. We cannot bracket out the larger world when we preach.
March 17, 2016
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Must Seminaries Change?
Talk to anyone from the world of seminary admissions/recruitment today and you will hear the same story: enrollment numbers for seminaries are down across the board.
February 18, 2016
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Think Globally, Push Back Locally
Back in the late 1990s shortly after I published a little book called Remember Creation, I was invited to give five morning lectures on creation stewardship at a Christian Bible camp north of Seattle.
June 4, 2015
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Proclaiming with Humility
Few, if any, students arrive at Calvin Seminary thinking they already know theology very well. But some do arrive at seminary convinced they already know how to preach...
March 18, 2015
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More on Those R-Rated Texts
As a pastor, one of the greatest joys I’ve had in the pulpit has been precisely in uncovering the real stories of Scripture, especially the ones that got sanitized in Sunday School or Christian dayschools.
September 16, 2014
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Gracious Residue
I confess--when I had to write down in my sermon log book what I had preached the day or two previous--sometimes it happened I'd find myself with my pen poised over the log book page and I could not recall the sermon...
July 22, 2014
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Only Something Nice?
Preaching should mostly be about saying something nice, but not at the cost of saying nothing at all in case the soundness of the faith is threatened.