The exegesis of scene four enables us to make this Summary Statement: The solution to Hannah’s problem of barrenness is continued prayer. The Summary Statement which is the meaning for the original audience will be converted into a Timeless Principle or meaning for our modern audience: Our solution for the barrenness of leadership is contiuned [...]
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The Importance of Identifying the Plot and Scenes in Narrative Preaching, Part Three
Posted: May 24, 2012 in Preaching NarrativesTags: chiasmus, conditional clause, Narrative preaching, protasis, religion, spirituality, theology
The exegesis of scene three enables us to make this Summary Statement: The solution to Hannah’s problem of barrenness is selfless prayer. The Summary Statement which is the meaning for the original audience will be converted into a Timeless Principle or meaning for our modern audience: Our solution for the barrenness of leadership is selfless [...]
The Importance of Identifying the Plot and Scenes in Narrative Preaching, Part Two
Posted: May 23, 2012 in Preaching NarrativesTags: chiasmus, Fokkelman's Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel, God, habitual action, independent clause, P. Kyle McCarter's The Anchor Bible, religion, theology
Exegesis of scene two in 1 Samuel 1 equips us to make this the summary statement for scene two: The solution to Hannah’s barrenness is neither polygamy nor retaliation. This summary statement or meaning for the original audience will be converted to a timeless principle for our modern audience: The solution for the barrenness of [...]
The Importance of Identifying the Plot and Scenes in Narrative Preaching, Part One
Posted: May 22, 2012 in Preaching NarrativesTags: action verbs, human-rights, iterative action, Narrative preaching, religion, Robert Alter's Art of Biblical Narrative, state of being verbs, theology, Walter Brueggemann
An Exegetical Study of 1 Samuel 1:1-28 Plot and scenes examined Plot Each of the three major divisions of the plot, beginning, middle, and end, has its unique characteristics. Introduction of the characters and the conflict characterizes the beginning. This information is static and timeless and is presented with state of being verbs. Robert Alter [...]
Sermon: Focusing on the Blessings In Ministry Not the Problems (2 Corinthians 2:14-7:4)
Posted: May 21, 2012 in SermonsTags: Aimee Copeland, Hans Finzel's The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo tells the following camp incident in his book You Can Make a Difference: I was in a junior high camp once. Everybody should go to a junior high camp once. The Bible is right. I should say my Roman Catholic friends are right. They should never have gotten rid of that doctrine of [...]
Aimee Copeland’s Grateful Family Teaches Us a Lesson!
Posted: May 19, 2012 in NewsTags: Aimee Copeland, flesh eating bacteria, health, little tallapoosa river, medicine, mr copeland, remarkable resilience
Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student contracted a flesh eating infection May 1 as she and friends zip-lined along the Little Tallapoosa River near Carrollton. When the homemade zip line broke, she fell to the water and rocks below, cutting her calf on a stone. Doctors believe the bacteria, Aeromonas hydrophlia, entered her body [...]
I read of a young mother whose life has been totally devastated. The husband of this mother of young children admitted he was a homosexual and then walked away. Before he abandoned his family, he confessed to having a homosexual relationship with her own father, a closeted homosexual. Both the homosexual husband and father-in-law were [...]
Imperfect Mothers (Matthew 1:1-17) Part One
Posted: May 16, 2012 in Sermon on Mother's DayTags: Bathsheba, George Sweeting, Hallmark Cards, Jesus genealogy, mother s day cards, Rahab, Ruth, Tamar
Hallmark Cards advertises that 133 million cards will be exchanged on this Mother’s Day. Hallmark.com will address, stamp and mail your Mother’s Day cards for you. Approximately 65 percent of Mother’s Day cards sales occur during the five days prior to the holiday. Hallmark offers nearly 1,000 different cards for Mother’s Day. Some are serious [...]
The Persecuted Church (Acts 4:5-12)
Posted: May 8, 2012 in SermonsTags: Accessibility, Albert Molhler, Communism, Exclusivity, Inclusism, Islam, Johann Tetzel, John Stott, Martin Luther, Oprah Winfrey, Pluralism, Roman Catholicism, Terrance L. Tiessen, Tim Keller's The Reason for God
Luke, the church’s first historian, records the first persecution of the church in Acts 4. Jesus predicted, “I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail.” In spite of Hell attacking the church, Jesus promised, “Hell will not succeed.” From the first century of Jewish persecution there have been major onslaughts [...]
