Give Them the Bible
Here is a word of counsel for young men who have their eye on the ministry. If you take my advice, you will not make your sermons from random texts, but will preach straight through a book of the Bible. [...]
Unfolding the Word
About three weeks ago I read a book about expository preaching and felt-need preaching, in which the author quoted Psalm 119:130, "The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple" (ESV). It is that word "unfolding" [...]
Many-ands and No-ands
In the first decade of my life as a minister I read an article "Little Words of Great Meaning" by Henry Jacobsen in the Christian Life magazine. Conjunctions, prepositions and so on; you know, the "ands" and "buts" and "ins". [...]
Bibles are not translated by atheists!
Here's a statement from the internet this week: "Bibles are not translated by atheists. If they were, maybe they would be more accurate" -- Ray Smith. This was in answer to a question about which translation would be best to [...]