I'm a grateful husband, father, oupa, and pastor of Grace Fellowship Church East Toronto. I love learning, writing, and encouraging. I'm on a lifelong quest to become a humble, gracious old man.
One of the keys is Christ-centered preaching:
People in our society will respond to narrative and story. They tend not to like the older kind of preaching that simply enunciates doctrinal principles.
I’m really not sure how common sermon plagiarism is. If it is becoming more common, I think there are a few reasons:
* a diminished view of preaching (not new – you read about
Tim Keller comments:
I think it would be most accurate to say that Reformed theology has always had great resources within it for missional work. For example:
1. Stanley Grenz credits Calvin for
I wrote this article in 2002, and it appeared in the September-October 2004 issue of Preaching, but I’ve never published it online. It’s received new life recently because I was