To Manuscript Or Not to Manuscript?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/70FTMuYp58fhAG3RsiYzBW?si=WFJsG3TJQcaHzwpkLBFc0g That is the question that every preacher must ask, and he must answer that question for himself in accordance with the wisdom of the Spirit. I know plenty of faithful fellow preachers on both sides of the question. Even so, here is my experience attempting to answer the question. I began my pastorate eight …

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The Preacher’s Confidence

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ijw3CIF4gUiskSIZyGwDw?si=5x1-rkEWR2qqHe613mmsoA For my latest pass through Be Thou My Vision, I have been reading a chapter of The Preacher's Catechism by Lewis Allen. Each of the forty-two chapters provides a question and answer, a verse or passage of Scripture, and some explanation, encouragement, and exhortation from Allen. Yesterday morning, I read chapter 7, which gives …

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The True Mission of the Church | Francis Grimke

Francis Grimke's Meditations on Preaching was one of the many books given away at Together for the Gospel that I came returned home with. For the last couple of months, it has occupied a place on my desk from whence I grab it once a week or so to read a couple pages before beginning …

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The King Has Come

Of Prayer, Preaching, Leprosy, & the Messianic Secret | Mark 1:35-45

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” And he said to them, “Let …

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Heaven Taken by Storm

Hearing the Word & Prayer | Chapters 4-5

https://open.spotify.com/episode/36hbW4SWKHn2W0AEKBTE7F?si=2uupSaChTbqVUz-0bhh-8Q We are continuing to read through Heaven Taken by Storm together. You can find our reading plan and links to previous posts here. Chapter Four Outline The great devotion required to properly hear the Word. A description of those who don’t hear the Word diligently. They scarcely mind what is said. They hear in …

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The Hope of Eternal Life | Titus 1:2-4

This sermon was originally preached in 2016. in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; To Titus, my true child in a common …

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Two Tasks

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. Acts 6:4 ESV In 1 Peter 5:2-3, pastors are given three commands which correspond to their three titles: shepherd the flock (pastor), exercise oversight (overseer), and be an example to the flock (elder). Each command is a different aspect of leading …

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Preach the Word!

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people …

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Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16-4:5)

Week 2 | Sermon SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) I charge you in the presence of God and …

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