I’m surprised at how much I’ve been blogging on preaching over the last year. It’s an incredibly interesting art-form, and at the same time a very odd thing to be spending your time doing.
Yesterday I preached for my current advanced preaching class… a few thoughts.
Preaching remains a love / hate thing for me. [...]

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I’m in a preaching seminar right now by Kent Anderson (of preaching.org and wrote choosing to preach). He just shared this lovely quote from godisamyth.com
Please do not pity me. I enjoy my life very much, even though you may think it is empty and worthless. I do not hate [...]

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I’ve written several times on preaching before, but here’s a few of my latest reflections as I’m preparing for tomorrow morning.
- The challenge of preaching is you’re always calling people to a place you’re struggling to go yourself.
- Preaching in different places four of the last five weekends, I can see how this can get [...]

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This week I visited Sanctuary downtown Toronto which is doing incredible work that I just love. I’ll have to share more of what I learned there sometime.
This weekend I’ll be speaking at Mosaic Baptist. Towards the end of the month I’ll be speaking at East Toronto Chinese Baptist Church and Chinese Evangelical [...]

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After speaking for about a combined five hours in church and in workshops this weekend, a few thoughts…
No matter how many times I’ve done this before, it seems I always need to pee at least times five before speaking.
Preaching in a church context is an odd thing, because you’re given a mic, the spotlight, [...]

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I’m visiting family in Ottawa this week, and I really should be relaxing, but unfortunately I’ve been busier than I’d like to be.
I’ve got a huge church planting project due next week, and I double booked myself this weekend. I’ll be speaking at Campus Challenge 2007 for a workshop on campus / postmodern evangelism [...]

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See the last three posts if you’re still catching up. Some people say ‘preaching is dead’. I often think so as well, but I still believe our post-Christian culture opens new opportunities for the ‘preacher’ today.
Postmodernity blurs the lines between everything - fact and fiction, on and offline, news and entertainment. [...]

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Some excellent thoughts coming from the discussion in the last two posts (1 and 2) on preaching. I’m going to continue discussing preaching as valuable in postmodern contexts where we still have an audience. However, I believe this must not be reduced to the transfer of information, which it often is. [...]

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I still believe in preaching, but there are its share of challenges.
Where the church has in many ways led western culture for most of the past millennia, during the past fifty years, the culture has leaped forward, lapping around the church; leaving it in the dust. Today the church is seen as the [...]

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I love my church, but an ear-aching silence hit me while I was sitting in the sanctuary trying to listen to the message today.
200 people sitting quietly in one moment in time. That’s an awful lot of people to not be expressing themselves.
However, I still believe in preaching. I’ll post a few thoughts [...]

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