Category: Preaching
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A CURRENT PROJECT: ROMANS
In the wee hours of the morning I worked on a forthcoming book my friend David Caddell and I have been working on for a couple of years. We hope to have it published this year. This morning’s post is the section I wrote today on the issue of sufffering from Romans 8:31-36. ___________________________ . . . Paul’s point is…
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GOOD PREACHER PART TWO–A RANT or WHO MOURNS FOR THE JEBUSITES
I am finally finding myself again after the flurry of activity around the holidays. Literally. This week I just found my November (yeah, you read that right, November) copy of Preaching magazine. It is one of my favorites—along with Christianity Today, Biblical Archaeology Review, and National Geographic. I hope to find my January BAR soon. …
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PERSPECTIVES ON A “GOOD PREACHER”
I’m finally catching up on my reading and was flipping through November’s Preaching magazine. There is a quick little article early in this edition titled “What Makes a Preacher ‘Good’” by Ben Mandrell. Mandrell lists six things that make a preacher good. 1. The preacher should give people a bigger picture of God. 2. The…
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NON SEQUITUR
As a general rule, I like things that have themes to them. However, life is often theme-less. Things happen to us everyday which are not connected and make no sense. That is the way today’s blog is. Below are three hopefully interesting, yet completely unrelated notes on my life since Sunday. 1. Where there…