Preaching

Kierkegaard (of all people?) on Authority and Eloquence in Preaching

Bruce Baugus
Aug 31, 2016
Søren Kierkegaard is surely one of the most influential and misunderstood influences on modern Western thought and especially contemporary theology. This is a bit surprising for someone who wrote in Danish and styled himself neither a philosopher nor a theologian but a "religious poet." That is a...

The Westminster Assembly and the Debate about the Word

Chad Van Dixhoorn
Jul 25, 2016
Someone in the Jerusalem Chamber had asked if it was a pastor's duty to read the Scriptures publicly in the weekly worship services of the church. It was November 1643, and the Westminster Assembly was trying to build a biblical system of church government from the ground up. In the summer months...

The Westminster Assembly and the Debate about the Word

Chad Van Dixhoorn
Jul 25, 2016
Someone in the Jerusalem Chamber had asked if it was a pastor's duty to read the Scriptures publicly in the weekly worship services of the church. It was November 1643, and the Westminster Assembly was trying to build a biblical system of church government from the ground up. In the summer months...

Penetrating Preaching

Donald John Maclean
Jun 30, 2016
Reformation Scotland Trust was formed in 2013. Their stated aim is “to promote the restoration of the Christian Church in Scotland, by informing, educating and promoting understanding of the attainments of the Second Reformation in Scotland.” That is an aim that I’m sure many readers of Meet the...

A Sermon on the Occasion of the Commencement of the New Hampshire Constitution

David Hall
Jun 2, 2016
Samuel McClintock (1732-1804), a graduate of the College of New Jersey, served the Greenland, New Hampshire, Congregational church for nearly a half century. He was a chaplain in the French and Indian War and for the New Hampshire Regiment in the Revolutionary War. This sermon was preached at the...

Hearing the Voice of the Lord in Your Pastor's Sermon

May 30, 2016
"And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers" (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Reformed churches believe God still speaks. While...

Book Giveaway: To Bring Men to Heaven by Preaching

May 10, 2016
Thanks to our friends at The Latimer Trust , we have two (2) copies of Peter Adam's book, To Bring Men to Heaven by Preaching: John Donne's Evangelistic Sermons to give away. The deadline for entering is Friday, May 20 . Here's the Entry Form .

God's Ambassadors: The Westminster Assembly and the Reform of the English Pulpit, 1643-1653

Chad Van Dixhoorn
Apr 18, 2016
The Westminster Assembly The assembly of divines that authored a famous confession of faith, catechisms, and much more, met in Westminster, now a suburb of London, in the middle of a bloody civil war that tore apart, England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The English parliament, for a variety of...

God's Ambassadors: The Westminster Assembly and the Reform of the English Pulpit, 1643-1653

Chad Van Dixhoorn
Apr 18, 2016
The Westminster Assembly The assembly of divines that authored a famous confession of faith, catechisms, and much more, met in Westminster, now a suburb of London, in the middle of a bloody civil war that tore apart, England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The English parliament, for a variety of...

Anglican Thomas Lye: Stand Fast in the Lord

Henry Jansma
Apr 15, 2016
“Where God does not find a mouth to speak, you must not find an ear to hear, nor a heart to believe.” We are at the fourth of our reading the Puritan Paperback, Sermons of the Great Ejection . This title is a collection of nine sermons recalls one of the great turning points in English Christianity...