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The following 12 entries are posted in the "Spiritual Formation" category.
July 14, 2009 17:31
I highly recommend this piece by Christine Sine on The Spiritual Discipline of Writing Sermons.
Why spend twenty hours a week in sermon preparation? Because it is an act of spiritual discipline. Listening to God by his Spirit and through his Word such that ...
May 22, 2009 14:08
I was pleased to see a piece by St. Francis biographer, Mark Galli, on Francis’ famous dictum that we “preach the gospel: if necessary use words.” This sentence is often used to suggest that the gospel can be preached without recourse to language...
November 09, 2007 14:05
This coming spring I expect to be team-teaching a course on the work of the Spirit in the practice of preaching. It’s been a tough course to find a good textbook for. Most homiletic texts pay some attention to the work of the Spirit. Scarcely anyone would di...
June 12, 2007 12:34
Preachers need to have thick skin. Whenever a person gets up in front of a crowd to speak, people are going to evaluate what they have to say – which may be a mild way of describing the kind of scrutiny under which a preacher is placed. Roast Preacher is the...
May 28, 2007 12:51
I received this message from one of my former students, Shawn Barden, last week. Shawn is pastoring a great church in Fernie, BC. His message encouraged me and I thought it might encourage you as well.
Hey Kent
Just wanted to share a note th...
March 12, 2007 12:19
Lately I’ve been preaching through the Sermon on the Mount, particularly chapter six and Jesus’ requirement that the forms of spiritual formation be kept secret. When you give, he says, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing....
January 19, 2007 12:53
I was looking through Mike Yaconelli’s, Messy Spirituality, (Zondervan 2002) yesterday and found this provocative, yet helpful quotation. Yaconelli was always able to stimulate my thinking in his back-page column in the Wittenburg Door. Here is his comme...
August 10, 2006 15:25
“Perfect love drives out fear.” 1 John 4:18
Anytime anyone has ever done a survey as to things people are afraid of, “public speaking” leads the list. Apparently we terrify each other. The prospect of standing in front of a ...
August 10, 2006 15:21
Read through the classic literature on biblical preaching and you will find a variety of forms and methods. The common denominator will be the preacher’s dependence upon prayer. The work of the preacher is the work of prayer.
We are talking about spir...
August 10, 2006 14:55
“Have you heard about the Royal Rumble?”
“What’s the Royal Rumble?”
“You haven’t heard about the Royal Rumble???”
I was listening to my son respond to his eight year old friend in the back seat.<...
August 10, 2006 14:53
Years ago I found myself faced with a daunting preaching responsibility. I was young and feeling unprepared for the challenge in front of me. An older pastor, a mentor to me, looked me in the eye and said, “The old time pastors used to talk about ‘unct...
August 10, 2006 14:53
This past summer (June 2000) I attended a conference on “spiritual formation.” This, you’ll understand, places me directly on the cutting edge of ministry for the next millennium. I speak facetiously, of course. Spiritual Formation is only the mo...