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Gospel Concerns Eternal Destiny

Temporal concerns make fine bridges for the gospel, but ultimately the gospel is about your eternal destiny.


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Comfort in Small Doses

Those who make comfort the great subject of their preaching seem to mistake the end of their ministry. Holiness is the great end. There must be a struggle ...


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Millennium Anxiety

Frantic man on the phone: "My wife just left me, I lost my job, I need surgery, and my spirits have hit bottom! Pastor, you've gotta help me. ...


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Preaching with Fire

Audiences will listen to a very poor voice, as long as there's fire in it.


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Excellent Compared to What?

I can't think of anything I do but what somebody I know does it better. Joe is more disciplined to exercise, Bob plays better golf, Hymman is more ...


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Preach to the Suffering

Preach to the suffering, and you will never lack a congregation. There is a broken heart in every pew.


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Information-Age Preaching

Not even from the pulpit can an audio-visual man be addressed as if he were a Gutenberg man. That doesn't mean he can only be spoken to audio-visually. ...


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Audience Insensitivity

To speak about global issues to inner-city people with their problems and never speak to their issues is to fail them.


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Bridge-Building

Preaching is essentially a bridge-building exercise. It is the exacting task of relating God's Word to our world with an equal degree of faithfulness ...


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Acid Test for a Sermon

Here is an acid test for a sermon: Will it hold up if you change the setting from a public to a person-to-person situation? Take away the pulpit, the ...


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