PowerPoint Parties: A Trend With Ministry Synergy
What a fun way to spend an evening! What a great way to empower the nerds and info-dumpers in our midst! And what potential for leveraging this trend for gospel ministry!
What a fun way to spend an evening! What a great way to empower the nerds and info-dumpers in our midst! And what potential for leveraging this trend for gospel ministry!
The human characters are also highly relatable. They are reluctant, fickle, stubborn, and ungrateful. At times they are fantastically brave. As such, it’s a very psychological book and so there’s lots to dig into here in moral application to God’s people today.
I made it a problem. Tim was in the room to listen to God’s word. But for me Tim’s head, like Mr Potato Head, became the largest head in the room. My de facto aim became: ‘Preach to impress Tim.’
Following Paul’s example, our forebears contended for the gospel by saying the necessary no to every yes. They did so in the fourth century with the the deity of Christ, in the fifth century with the doctrine of sin, in the sixteenth century with justification by faith alone, and in the twentieth century with the cross of Christ. Threats to these doctrines remain today.
In my opinion, the single best thing you can do to improve your preaching is to join or start a preachers’ fellowship. The regular pattern of critiquing other people’s sermons and having your own sermons critiqued is, I believe, the best way to continue improving as a preacher.