![]() ![]() I picked up John Piper’s The Supremacy of God in Preaching for Worchihan, but decided to read it myself (its thinness assured me it wouldn’t be too technical for a non-preacher). The sermons I remember from college were much the same.īut shouldn’t all preaching be centered around the Bible? I’m pretty sure lots of the sermon titles began with “How to,” so the sermons essentially consisted of advice. ![]() Growing up, I heard a lot of 3-point sermons where the missing words on the outline all started with the same letter. When I compare the two, I’m disappointed. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been thinking about preaching, about both the hundreds of sermons I’ve heard throughout my life and about what a sermon ought to be. The only thing I remember him saying about Jesus is that He was a carpenter who died on a tree. ![]() It feels like a comic routine, and I’m waiting for him to get to the message, the message of Jesus coming to earth as part of God’s plan to save humanity from an eternity without Him, you know the one, but he never gets there. I’m at church, and the youth pastor is talking about the time he was in a band. ![]()
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