A View from the Pew
This is the book I’ve been waiting forty years to read. Each Sunday when I rise up to preach, I find myself wondering what my people are expecting of me… At last, a knowledgeable layman has written on behalf of his fellow pew-sitters an extremely helpful and practical compendium of wisdom and counsel directed to …
Read More Preaching is more, but not less, than making a good argument from a text. What better feedback from the faithful can we get than that which is shaped by years of legal training and experience – not to mention, growing up with a seasoned preacher! Meirwyn Walters reflections here reward not only us preachers but …
Read MoreAnybody know who these guys are? Tom Martinez, Tom House, Lloyd Carr, Bill O’Brien, Jerry Schuplinski, Jeff McDaniels, and one named William Stephen Belichick? These are just a few of the coaches that have coached Tom Brady, the currently reigning GOAT. (For those of you who have been away from the internet for 20 years, …
Read MoreAs your congregants what out the back door of the sanctuary, what do you want them to Do, Be, Know or Feel as a result of your preaching? It doesn’t have to be all four of those each week. Perhaps today’s sermon on the Great Commission is a call to action, a challenge to “Do” …
Read More We come on Sunday mornings to be changed, So it is one of the more perplexing realities that many preachers often do not spend quality time on their applications. Some simply don’t get around to it. And there are members of a truly curious subset who go all the way and assert that they do …
Read More What are the dangers of skipping merrily over the text? First, you will be teaching us to be lazy in our own study. You will make us less brave and adventurous in our private reading of Scripture. If it’s a hard one for you, it’s probably near impossible for us. If you have one hundred …
Read More A word or two about the necessity of cultural literacy. There’s something mildly peculiar about a pastor who knows the details of the current plotlines from Days of Our Lives. But there’s something that’s just out of touch about a pastor in America who has no idea what Days of Our Lives refers to. (The …
Read More Everything you do with respect to your preaching should be the product of an intentional choice. The ironic thing is that even when you think you are not making choices intentionally, your actions reveal your intentions. Even if you don’t mean them to. The essential principle upon which this book rests is the following: the …
Read More If you are a preacher, you have my immediate admiration.What you do matters. Really matters. That sermon timeslot on Sunday has the potential to be the most important module in our week. Those of us sitting in the pews know that we should have daily quiet times. We know that we should listen to our …
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