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Letter to a New Pastor in the Springtime
In the springtime when the golden, Welsh daffodils gather in glorious brigades—brave, young, mythical sentinels appearing out of the fertile earth, guarding a new countryside painted with a Creator’s...
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A Conspicuous Absence: Why There is No Separation of Church and State Outcry...
Joshuajohanson / Foter I was appalled. A sign in front of a Baptist church in Charlotte openly advocates its opposition to Proposition One in North Carolina. The proposition, which is due to go to the...
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Let Us Wake Before We Die: Saying Your Prayers on Easter Sunday
And so it is Easter. We read from the familiar passages, but may the Lord of life come upon us in a surprisingly new way this year! Listen as if for the first time for the inerrant,infallible Word of...
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I Will Not Let Go of Easter
I will not let go of Easter. More properly, I affirm that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not something that I will celebrate and remember on one day of the year. In the Reformed faith, that is in...
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Every Pastor Should Only Have One Sermon
Dear Pastoral Students in the Gospel of Christ: I want to bring you a charge as we approach the conclusion of this season of study. My charge to you is to preach one sermon. This is what I mean. If we...
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Preaching on Mission (Matthew 4:12 – 17): Keynote Message at the National...
There has never been a more important time to talk to preachers about preaching on mission. The landscape of Old Christendom is like an abandoned strip mine, with huge, gaping, ugly craters, filling...
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The Interior Reactor of Ministry: A Charge to RTS Charlotte (Psalms 116:16-19)
The energy to minister comes from many places. Not all of them are good. We can minister out of ambition, or self inflated estimation of our gifts, or pride, or religious duty tied to a supposed...
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God Can Repair Broken Daddies: A Father’s Day Message
Father’s Day is a day to remember that God made dads. And when they break, and they can and often do, only He can fix them. 2 Samuel 18:24-19.2; Proverbs 17:6; Ephesians 6:1-4 The Bible is very...
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A Pastoral Prayer for the Lord’s Day Based on Psalm 149
O Father, how beautiful and true is Thy Word in Psalm 149. I, too, desire to join the company of the saints to praise Thy name. It is the highest expression of our God-shaped humanity to be able to...
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Thoughts on Faith from a Garden in March and Pastoral Ministry
One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts.” (Psalm 145.4 NIV) For a gardener, like myself, March is an in-between month. The dried, gray-brown stalks on the...
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In That Day No Need for Preachers
I recently rummaged through some older sermon manuscripts. I developed a new appreciation for the long-suffering graces of my first congregation—and my wife! Reading them reminded me of Spurgeon’s...
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A Summer Sermon: Trusting God in Your Wilderness
“Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway” (1844) by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), National Gallery, London. It is hot all over. The other day we were in my SUV and my wife asked me if I had the...
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I have been thinking about classes in training seminarians in public speaking. This is different than teaching homiletics, or preaching (or sacred communication, as the Army calls it). Public speaking...
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On Masticating the Text: A Much Needed Reform in Evangelical Preaching
I believe that we face a malady of malnourished ministers. The problem is that too many of us preachers fail to chew our food properly. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) may help at this point.[1]...
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Thanksgiving: The Essential Ingredient to True Christian Worship
A Thanksgiving Day Sermon based on Psalm 100 (especially verses 3 and 4) This sermon was originally preached at First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, TN on Thanksgiving, November 24, 2005. It is...
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Guide to Crafting an Expository Biblical Sermon
I offer the following for the use of my students in our preaching class, both at Erskine Seminary, and in other classes where I may be teaching. This model was developed while I was on faculty at the...
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Pathway to an Expository Sermon: A Building Block
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Little Girl Arise! How Jesus Ministers to Women Today
V. Van Gogh, 1883; The Hague, Netherlands; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Mark 5.22-43 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” Mother’s...
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Requiem for Pamela
“The Star.” Edgar Dégas (1834-1917). French. Philadelphia Museum of Art. I often compose verse and music as an extension of pastoral ministry. The impulse is predictable but not fully understood. The...
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Five Ways to Make Sure that Your Sermon is Not Merely Your Ideas
Raphael (1483–1520), St Paul Preaching in Athens (1515). Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Identity theft is running rampant. Some orators are claiming to be Christian preachers, with a message from...
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