Tag: Preaching
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Preacher
He talks like water:Sometimes shallow, sometimes deep.You swim or you drown. Copyright Dennis Cortes 2021
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What my God says, that I will speak.
“But Micaiah said, ‘As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.’” (2 Chronicles 18:13) Chapter 18 of second Chronicles opens with Jehoshaphat entering into a marriage alliance with Ahab king of Israel. I don’t understand why Jehoshaphat did this, since Ahab was notorious for wickedness. No good could possibly come out…
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Why I Rarely Preach Nowadays
If we will acknowledge the ministry a particular office in the church of Christ … then we must also confess it is not anyone’s work, though never so able, except called to the office…. Those that are not sent and commissionated by God’s call for ministerial work, they may speak truths as well as they…
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Short Sermons
I learn a lot every time I read Peter Leithart’s blog. He is obviously very intelligent and the range of his reading is breathtaking. Here’s a post of his on Pope Francis’ advice on preaching. “[The] words of the preacher must be measured, so that the Lord, more than his minister, will be the centre…
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Speak the words…
Speak the words, convey the data, and step aside… Step aside and they will know what you know because they know it already. You have nothing to teach them. You are not more beautiful than they are. You are not wiser. Do not shout at them. Leonard Cohen, “How to Speak Poetry”. I need to…
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Ascend Higher! Calvin on Teaching and Exhorting Others
It certainly is the part of the Christian man to ascend higher than merely to seek and secure the salvation of his own soul. Although not all have the office of preaching the word of God, yet a private person who is a member of the church may beget spiritual children to God if he…
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Sermon: False Prophets
Here’s a sermon I preached at Massebah Christian Church last year from I John 4:1-6.
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