Preaching
What do people wrongly assume expositional preaching is?
9MarksMany people wrongly assume that an expositional sermon is
What is an “expositional” sermon?
9MarksAn expositional sermon is a sermon that takes the main point of a passage of Scripture, makes it the main point of the sermon, and applies it to life today.
In other words, an expositional sermon exposes the meaning of a passage of Scripture and shows its relevance to the lives of one’s hearers. That’s it.
This means that an expositional sermon does NOT
How do elders relate to “the pastor”?
9MarksBiblically speaking, all elders are pastors. Peter tells the elders among his readers to “shepherd” [Greek: pastor] the flock of God that is among you” (1 Pet. 5:2). Paul told the Ephesian elders to “care for” [Greek: pastor] the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood” (Acts 20:28). And the only time the noun “pastor” is used in the New Testament there is no indication that it is a different office from elder (Eph. 4:11).
Why is expositional preaching that ignores biblical theology unsound?
9MarksExpositional preaching that ignores biblical theology is unsound because:
Why should expositional preaching include biblical theology?
9Marks
Book Review: Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, by Graeme Goldsworthy
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010Read this book, and you’ll not only want to re-read it, you’ll want to re-read your Bible.
Book Review: Preaching Christ in All of Scripture, by Edmund Clowney
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010This book is worth having on your shelf for the primary reason that it will encourage you to preach Christ himself from the Old Testament.
Book Review: Preaching Parables to Postmoderns, by Brian Stiller
Review by Carl Trueman | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010In the end, I was perplexed by the book. There was plenty of thought-provoking material, but there was also a rather contrived view of postmodernism.
Book Review: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament, by Sidney Greidanus
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010Preaching Christ from the Old Testament is an excellent resource that has yet to be replaced.
Book Review: Him We Proclaim, by Dennis Johnson
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010There are a myriad of books on preaching, but Johnson believes that the Bible is finally the best guidebook for preaching the Bible.
Book Review: The Faithful Preacher, by Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Review by Ken Jones | 9Marks Journal: Race and Ethnicity | 03.03.2010The Faithful Preacher is indeed an important, insightful, and invigorating work that should benefit all who read it—whether Black or White, clergy or laity.
Book Review: Kindled Fire, by Zack Eswine
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.02.2010Eswine has done us a great service by drawing together so much material on Spurgeon into one place.
