Just discovered a helpful article on Wikipedia summarizing the redemptive-historical approach to preaching:
The proponents of this kind of preaching argued that Old Testament narratives are not given – primarily – to us by God
I’ve been asked to speak to a local group of pastors today on theocentric preaching. I’ll only have about an hour, so it’s forced me to narrow what I want
Steve Mathewson has a great post on how to connect to the storyline of the Bible. This is one of the most important concepts to keep in mind for true theocentric preaching.
Ray Van Neste writes that, contrary to what many think, people do indeed want substantive sermons:
Preachers are often told that people really are not interested in substantive content in sermons. I know
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
