Preaching to my Family

Sunday just gone, I was preaching both in the morning and the evening, in different places. The morning one was a bit short notice, and I haven’t got bags of time at the moment, so I did the same sermon in both venues. It was a sermon I’ve preached twice before as well, once without any notes, so I was quite confident with it.

God was Homeless for 300 Years

The other evening, I heard someone in our church talk about the building as the “House of God.” Clearly this is wrong. Amazingly, in God’s providence, I’m preaching this Sunday and one of my points in the sermon I’m re-using is on how we turn God into a pagan deity by saying that “we’re going to church to meet with God” which is essentially the same sort of point. In fact, if church buildings are God’s House, then that means that in the 300 years before God’s people started building church buildings, God was homeless!

Him We Proclaim – A Synopsis #7

(Synopses of previous chapters can be accessed by clicking here)

Theological Foundations of Apostolic Preaching

We don’t need a step-by-step how-to guide for preaching apostolically but rather a new way of viewing scripture. We must “discern the foundations of the biblical authors’ understanding of God’s unified plan and purpose for history” (p.199).

The Miracle of Life

I’ve discovered a lot recently about the miracle of creating life, as seen by the photos below:

Find out more details on this awesomeness on The proGnosis. Our due date is 22nd September so we’re currently about 13 weeks in.

Why I Don’t Like the Last Two Lines of This Song

When this passing world is done,
When has sunk yon radiant sun,
When I stand with Christ on high,
Looking o’er life’s history,
Then, Lord, shall I fully know,
Not till then, how much I owe.

- Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Him We Proclaim – A Synopsis #6

(Synopses of previous chapters can be accessed by clicking here)

PART TWO – THE PRACTICE OF APOSTOLIC, CHRISTOCENTRIC PREACHING

The Epistle to the Hebrews as an Apostolic Preaching Paradigm

One of the problems is that there is little apostolic preaching in the New Testament, at least not the regular Sunday style preaching. This means we haven’t got so many examples to mimic. The redemptive-historical Christ-centred hermeneutic is abundant in their writing, however.

Saint’s Stories! #3

SAINT ILLTUD

Also spelt Illtyd,this one has a place named after him. It’s Llantwit Major, or in Welsh, Llanilltud Fawr. He died sometime in the middle of the 6th century and was probably born in the century before.