Uncategorized Expository Preaching Takes the Text on its Own Terms 28 Jun 2020 It Models How One Should Take the Text and Study It On Its Own Terms Take the root word of expository: expose. Our desire is to take the text on…
preaching Don’t Bypass “Real Needs” for “Felt Needs” When Preaching 28 Jun 2020 Joe Needy comes to Capital City Church with a life full of issues he dealt with on a daily basis. After exploring a number of other therapeutic options and remedies,…
Uncategorized Preaching with Fatigue–What Should One Do? 28 Jun 2020 One weekend, I had returned from Virginia visiting with family over Thanksgiving, driving 500+ and arriving in town at 10:00 p.m. Saturday night. I was struggling with ‘car-lag’ and it…
preaching Awake, O Sleeper: What Should Preachers Do With Sleepers in their Congregation? 28 Jun 2020 Dear preachers of the gospel, take note: people will fall asleep at times during your sermon. There, now don’t you feel better? But for many, even if this truth sinks…
preaching Why Just Any Book Won’t Do: Why We Preach from the Bible 25 Jun 2020 God’s plan for pure churches comes from God’s written, holy, and inscripturated Word. This collection of books we have in this Bible is a library of truth. Sixty-six books, written…
apologetics Why Pastors (and All Christians) Should Be Engaged in Apologetics 25 Jun 2020 Before we ask the ‘why,’ we must understand the ‘what’ and ‘to whom’ of apologetics. What is it? John Frame defines Christian apologetics as that which “seeks to serve God…
preaching Why Are Preachers So Exhausted After Preaching? 25 Jun 2020 Preaching on Sunday morning is, for me, the most exhilarating part of my calling! I cannot wait to step into the pulpit at my church and deliver that which has…
Uncategorized The Key Component to Exposition: Jesus as the Centerpiece of Scripture 25 Jun 2020 In order to understand the priority Jesus placed on the Scriptures, the student must understand the priority the Scriptures put on Jesus: he is the centerpiece of God’s entire written…
Uncategorized Through Types and Shadows: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament 25 Jun 2020 Many Christians struggle with the unity of the Scriptures, especially in the issue of Christ in the OT. Yet, passages such as Colossians 2:16-17 show the reader the connection between…
Uncategorized ARBC Marketplace: The Logical Fallacy of Appealing to Tradition 23 Jun 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe6uLdjzPU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2WPjm-XdE7NA3yk-KWQQDDBuma-S3C_SKIJmHtzeMNvKS_5tkhBSKqyWg Do we ever say, "That's the way we've always done it"? Or, "We've never done it that way before"? Then we are committing a logical fallacy of the first…
