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Weekly Roundup: Preaching & Preachers
For this week’s roundup, I dug into my archives and pulled a dozen articles about preaching. There’s something for everyone here: those who listen to preaching, those who want to understood good (and bad) preaching, and those who preach.
Weekly Roundup: Psalm 119, Christian liberty, women in the church, Christ and Him crucified
Rescued by Psalm 119, four principles for Christian liberty, women as vital to the church of Christ, and preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Weekly Roundup: Listening to Sermons, Avoiding Boring Sermons, and Pastoring
Resources on sermons: listening to sermons, avoiding boring sermons, and pastoring as more than just preaching sermons.
Show Us Christ by Sovereign Grace
Show Us Christ by Sovereign Grace
Weekly Roundup: 2019.07.26
Articles on practical help for confessing sin even when it’s awkward (which is always), making Jesus the point of every OT sermon (maybe), and how pride disqualifies a pastor; a quote on speaking the truth in love.
Weekly Roundup: 2019.06.28
Love & believing the best, struggling with the historical redemptive narrative way of reading the Bible, and lessons from the worst sermon he ever heard.
Weekly Roundup: 2019.05.08
On overcoming problems with the power of God by Clint Archer, a plea to preachers to explain the text and the methodology, how to deal with people who grow slowly by Eric Davis, and false faith that withers away and is no better than that of the devils by John Calvin.
Weekly Roundup: 2019.04.17
John Calvin on the phrase “[Christ] descended into hell”, Sinclair Ferguson with an insightful article about joy in God, John MacArthur with a pungent article on the insufficiency of worldly philosophy but the sufficiency of Christ, and an article by 9Marks exhorting pastors to explain how they reached their conclusions about the Scriptural text.
Weekly Roundup: 2019.03.04
J.C. Ryle on the cost of true religion, Tim Challies on grumbling and gossip, R. C. Sproul on the problem of forgiveness, and John MacArthur on honoring God in the pulpit.
Words are Always Necessary
"Preach the Gospel at all times; use words if necessary" is a stupid quote. Preach the Gospel at all times; it requires words.