One of the things I’ve enjoyed about going along to an Anglican church this year is knowing that in every service, every week, we’ll hear from the breadth of Scripture before anyone even gets up to preach. There’s always a Psalm, an Old Testament reading, an epistle, and then the capstone, a Gospel reading. Every [...]
brett jones – preparation: prepared and revealed
The dichotomy between careful preparation and spontaneous delivery in preaching has consumed many a congregation as they pursue authentic revelation. For some, the discipline and detail of extended preparation offers due recognition to the great responsibility of preaching. Other times it has seemed that the voices promoting the spontaneity of the Spirit’s inspiration have been [...]
laura giddey – ps: i love preaching
Recently I preached when the youth took over our two morning services at church. Pulling together a bunch of teenagers and leaders proved tricky but speaking back in ‘big church’ was lots of fun! I love the setting of local church, Sunday morning and I love the style of expository, casual, relational preaching. I enjoyed [...]
rod thompson – living in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation
Miroslav Volf contends that God’s people in current times and places must choose to live “against the tide” – a tide characterised by the inner pull toward self-absorption and away from care for others, impelled by what he calls a “culture stripped of grace” (Volf, Against the Tide (Eerdmans, 2010) xi-xii). In different ways, in [...]
