I love seeing old pictures or films that give a glimpse of how life was lived and what culture looked like in bygone days, exposing me to history I never could have lived or reminding me of the now-changed landscape of my past. I like to be able, somehow, to grasp...
What if I told you there is a tool available to expositors that, once mastered, will keep you from ever having to worry about sermon outlines again? Would you be interested? Here is the tool: structure. Become competent in discerning the structure of a text and your...
If we lived in a perfect world, and each reader of the Bible were perfect, then without any real impediment we could read the Scripture, understand it perfectly, and teach it to others. If only. In a perfect world, there would be no need for exposition, because every...
“24 hours isn’t enough.” “There are just not enough hours in the day.” “I’m under a time crunch.” “If only I had more time in the day.” “I need an eighth day of the week.” Ever feel this way? We all have. Often we struggle to complete all the tasks before us in a...
Communication can make or break you. Here are some tips that will help you communicate effectively in your ministry and in your church. Think in tweets. In this social media age, the attention span of readers and viewers is as short as ever. Try to be clear but...
Great design is important in today’s world for making great first impressions, in maintaining effective communication, and in creating memorable content. Here are some tips that might help you raise the level of excellence in your ministry! KIS- Keep It Simple |...
One of the most crucial ways in which we acknowledge the importance of CONTEXT in exposition is by dealing with the biblical storyline. Specifically, when dealing with any New Testament text, we simply must consider how the writer is utilizing the Old Testament....
Preaching is letting texts talk, according to an expositional luminary such as J.I. Packer. Of course, he’s spot on: if the preacher is talking rather than the text, that’s not biblical preaching. However, every text has a context. Without it, goes the old...
The principles of expositional preaching are like building blocks. We might think of them as shaped differently and made of different substances. This, of course, means that we use them differently and at different times in the process. We might want to think of this...
For years, fledgling pastors learned to preach a particular way, employing an ancient education method called the Trivium. It is still the best way. You begin by learning the basics, the fundamentals, the nuts and bolts, if you will. David Helm calls them the building...
