preaching

To talk like this, and act like that

Without a doubt my favorite U2 album of all time remains Achtung Baby. It’s gritty layers went really well with my early teenage angst years. A completely underrated song in the Album is Acrobat. Here’s a snippet: No, nothing makes sense Nothing seems to fit I know you’d hit out If you only knew who [...]

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Say something beautiful

It seems I still haven’t been able to shake my love/hate relationship with speaking and preaching. I’m definitely my worst critic, but I feel bad when it leaks into the critique of others sometimes. Some people speak just to say something (the blabbers), And as the saying goes, some people speak because they have something [...]

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Questions on church gatherings

I’ve got lots of questions, here’s a series of questions I’ve been pondering lately on church gatherings – and by that I mean that thing folks do in the New Testament when they get together. What do you call yours? I was going to say Sunday gathering, but lots of folks don’t meet on Sundays. [...]

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Mark Driscoll’s preaching notes

Love him or hate him, Driscoll’s quite the preacher. Josh Harris did a series of posts on preaching notes and managed to get Driscoll to share a bit of what he does. Below is a scan of his notes. I actually do the same thing with the sticky notes. Sometimes I have a small page [...]

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Underwhelming…

Yesterday was a preaching bomb. Ever have everything prepared, really know your material, and still fail to deliver? I wanted it over as soon as I got up… and I just pushed through it. I love preaching, even though I question it’s role, I’m thrilled whenever I can engage hearts and minds with the Scriptures [...]

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Engaging God through the Scriptures

It’s Monday morning, do you recall what you heard at church on Sunday? I’ve been inspired by many great speakers and preachers, but I wonder how often we really engage God through the Scriptures during our church gatherings? I’m sure I’ve heard Scripture, at least audibly, in every church that I’ve attended, but I wonder [...]

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Where do you sit?

Do you have a particular spot you like to sit? I rarely went to class in university because without fail, I would fall asleep in every single one of them. I’d wake up to some strange pen trail of gibberish and wonder what on earth it was all for. I tried sitting at the front [...]

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‘old school’ preachin’

I’ve written a number of posts on my concerns and issues with preaching, but I’ve got to admit there are a some pluses to ‘old school’ preaching… The community has the opportunity to live an ongoing narrative through a certain person. The story always picks up where it left off, and as long as the [...]

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