Cultivating the Beatitudes
This past Sunday, I completed a series of sermons on the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1-12. Each passing week’s message was used by God in...
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Mid-Week Minutes 9.21.11
Helpful Internet, Radio Ministries: Grace to You, John MacArthur Desiring God, John Piper Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Mark...
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Mid-Week Minutes 7-27-11
Make Leviticus practical. In Leviticus last week we said it covered 5 ways we live with God – or that He lives with us: sacrifice,...
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Be Diligent to Listen to Sermons
The Westminster Confession Larger Catechism states: ‘It is required of those that hear the Word preached that they attend upon it...
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The TV and the Sermon
[Timothy Turner] explains how TV watching and preaching are diameterically opposed to one another – one is visual, the other is...
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Preaching is Always Effective
Even when preaching the Word of God does not soften and save and heal, it is not necessarily ineffective. This preaching of the Word...
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Preparing for Sunday -Revelation 5:6-10
Carefully Think what is the main idea of Revelation 5:6-10? make a list of what you learn about Jesus that makes him distinct from...
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Mid-Week Minutes 2.23.11
MidWeek2-23-11 from Summit Woods on Vimeo. Sun AM-The Uniqueness of Jesus Sermon Manuscript The uniqueness of jesus 5.1 5...
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2009 Shepherds’ Conference Reflections
My expectations for encouragement, equipping, and fellowship as well as theological, spiritual, and practical stimulation were all...
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2009 Shepherds’ Conference
This week I will attend my sixteenth Shepherds’ Conference. I have been attending since 1991, when I was pastoring a church in...
Read MoreWhen Preaching Is Not Central
A few quick thoughts on what happens when the pulpit and expository preaching loses a place of centrality within the life of the local...
Read MoreEleven Reasons Why We Should Love Preaching
Biblical preaching must not be less than central in the ministry of a local church. That was the theme of my sermon this past Sunday...
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Exegeting the Text Welcome to my neurosis. I again offer these posts as “the way I do it,” not as “the way it...
Read MoreExpository Convictions – part 6
For many this may be irrelevant material, however, for those of you in our congregation, you may not realize the particular approach I...
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Before I begin to describe the details of how I study, prepare and deliver sermons, I want to first describe the preaching environment I...
Read MoreExpository Convictions – part 4
What has been said so far about expository preaching is not to suggest that there is no place for a topical message or that topical...
Read MoreExpository Convictions – part 3
In addition to the biblical evidence, a few theological considerations suggest expository preaching to be the most biblical manner to...
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