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My name is Kent Anderson and my passion is preaching. I preached my first sermon when I was seventeen years old at Maple Ridge Baptist Church near Vancouver, British Columbia, back in 1978. The pastor asked me to speak on the text "You are the Light of the World." It took me five whole minutes. My best friend did five minutes on "You are the Salt of the Earth." Then the pastor got up and cleaned up the mess. It wasn't much, but it was a start, and it awoke an inkling that this might be God's calling for my life. Since then I have preached hundreds of sermons in about one hundred different churches. I have been a full time pastor for eleven years in Calgary, AB, Richmond, BC, and Prince Rupert, BC. And now God has led me to be a teacher of preachers at Northwest Baptist Seminary and the Associated Canadian Theological Schools (ACTS) of Trinity Western University in Langley, BC (forty-five minutes from Vancouver). It is an inestimable privilege to be involved in the training of the next generation of preachers for the glory of God and the good of the kingdom.
I have earned a Ph.D. with a major in Preaching from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX. My dissertation title was "'Global' Preaching: A Paradigm for Preaching Across Cultural Change," in which I argued for an integrated form of preaching that breaks down the polarity between exposition and encounter in order to help people hear from God through both cognition and intuition. It is my contention that this form of preaching is desperately needed in these postmodern times.
I am excited to offer this website as a forum for a discussion of the many and varied intersections between preaching and culture. As Mr. Dylan reminds us, the times keep a-changing. While our message dare not change, we had better understand the changes in our culture in order to speak redemptively within the culture. I welcome your contributions to this discussion in the interests of enhancing all of our preaching for the glory of God and the growth of the Kingdom.