Archive for June, 2010
“Give Me A Man” 1 Samuel 17:10: A Sermon on Biblical Manhood, Part 2
Posted: June 24, 2010 in SermonsTags: Biblical Manhood, Brian Chapell, Charles R. Swindall's Three Steps Forward Two Steps Back, Masculinity, misogyny
“Give Me A Man” 1 Samuel 17:10: Sermon on Biblical Manhood, Part 1
Posted: June 22, 2010 in SermonsTags: FaceBook, John Piper, Manhood, Masculinity, Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Wayne Grudem
GBC Sermon Audio – June 20 AM, 2010 Goliath’s had no idea what he was asking for when he bellowed like an out of tune tuba: “GIVE ME A MAN!” Wayne Grudem and John Piper identified and addressed a problem in leadership back in 1991 which is still relevant: “A controversy of major proportions has [...]
Review of He is Not Silent: Chapter 3 “Preaching is Expository: A Theology of Exposition
Posted: June 16, 2010 in Book ReviewsTags: Albert Mohler, He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World
I had a homiletics professor in seminary who made a statement that, at first, I did not understand. He said, “You change the illustrations in your sermon and repreach the same outline and your people will never know the difference.” Then I started listening to his audio sermons and completely understood his statement. His sermons were [...]
Book Review of He is Not Silent, “The Ground of Preaching: Our Triune God” Chapter 2
Posted: June 13, 2010 in Book ReviewsTags: Albert Mohler, He Is Not Silent, James Denney, Martin Lloyd-Jones, Spurgeon, Tertullian
Mohler makes a statement in chapter two of He is Not Silent that could be transformational to our preaching: “Preaching is an inescapably theological act, for the preacher dares to speak of God and, in a very real sense, for God.” Therefore our preaching must be Trinitarian which “bears witness to the God who speaks, the Son who [...]
Contextualize without Compromise, Part 2
Posted: June 9, 2010 in ContextualizationTags: Bob Harrington, Contextualization, David Sills, Ed Stetzer, J. Hudson Taylor, Jay Adams, John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, Martin Luther, Phil Parshall, SBC International Mission Broad, The Chaplain of Bourbon Street, Tim Keller
GBC Sermon Audio – June 6 PM, 2010 I was recently asked by a church member about Bob Harrington, who was named “The Chaplain of Bourbon Street” by the major of New Orleans in 1963. I had almost forgotten about him. Billy Graham said Bob Harrington was “bringing a witness for Jesus Christ to the middle [...]
Contextualize without Compromise, Part 1
Posted: June 8, 2010 in ContextualizationTags: Advance the Church, and Models., Contextualization, Contextualization: Meanings, David J. Hesselgrave, Ed Stetzer, Edward Rommen, George W. Peters, International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, John Hammett, John Piper, Methods, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Phil Parshall, Pluralism, Syncertism
GBC Sermon Audio – June 6 AM, 2010 The New South is growing. “Through urbanization and the vibrant growth of southern cities and towns, the South is becoming a center for innovative, intellectual and cultural growth”, reports Advance the Church. Advance the Church also provided some of the following information. This will greatly impact the [...]
Defending the Gospel with Your Conversion: Sermon on Galatians 1:13-16
Posted: June 1, 2010 in SermonsTags: Chuck Colson, D. L. Moody, Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Huss, John MacArthur, Martin Luther, T. T. Shields, The Manhattan Declaration
GBC Sermon Audio – May 30 AM, 2010 In the 1920s and 30s, the Fundamentalists and the Modernists battled over the essentials of the gospel. Harry Emerson Fosdick, a liberal Baptist pastor, kicked off the controversy by preaching a sermon entitled, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” Among the Fundamentalists who fought for the Gospel was T. [...]
