Seed-picking Preaching

Lingamish has a post up where he decries what he calls “seed-picking” in sermon presentation. Here the preacher jumps from text to text quickly and without giving proper attention to background and the context of the texts used.

we all have heard these sermons…In John it says, and turn over to Ezekiel, and this agrees with Genesis. Usually these sermons lose all context and ends up just being a mismatch of texts.

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Do you Need the Bible Languages?

An interesting question from the Expository Thoughts blog. As I read the post two parallel emotions came over me. First, I think that one must never come to the conclusion that languages are necessary to know the scriptures. And another point, we have a responsibility to use every tool that we have the ability to use in preparation. and finally, we should desire to gain greater preceision and power in our preaching that will probably require the languages.

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How to be a Guest Preacher

Ed Eubanks from the Placement Reflections Blog was interviewed by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship about this issue. Here is the link to the informative article that also has links to other resources.

The first half of the article is directed to churches who have guest speakers, the second half is to guest speakers themselves. I encourage you to check out this interesting resource.

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