Anthropocentrism

Beyond self-help chatter

David Neff describes what happens when preachers forget to connect a text to the bigger story and instead trivialize the text, as he discovered while visiting a church on vacation: The Old Testament

Missing Jesus

I confess to what has to be one of my greatest mistakes ever: Four or five years ago I was unhappy with my own preaching. I knew something was missing, but I couldn&

How not to preach at Christmas part 2

A couple of weeks ago, I posted on one of the ways that sermons can go off target at Christmas. In an effort to preach relevant sermons, preachers sometimes miss the theocentric purpose