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• The Theology of Sermon Design  (September 1, 2007)
  Current homiletic approaches did not materialize in a vacuum. Their ascendancy to popularity did not just happen. Today at least three winds of influence swirl around contemporary homiletic discussion: theology, literary criticism and culture. Pastors who would think deeply about the form of their sermons and who care about faithfulness to the gospel must wrestle with the issues raised by each of these areas of thought.
• How I Study the Bible for a Sermon  (October 2, 2007)
  As I'm training guys in my church to preach, I quickly wrote out a very brief outline of how I prepare a sermon...
• Why Pentecostals Don?t Preach Expository Sermons  (May 1, 2007)
  I am an expository preacher, and I am also a Pentecostal. Admittedly, these two categories are not often used in the same sentence, much less to describe the same person. But why is that, when so many of the convictions that shape each view are similar?a high view of biblical authority, a relian
• What are the biblical qualifications for being a pastor of a church?  (June 20, 2007)
• Why Do We Preach?  (July 23, 2007)
• Why don't Pastors Preach from the Old Testament?  (March 12, 2007)
  A pulpit committee had interviewed their top tier of pastoral candidates, only to discover a disconcerting fact: "None of them preach from the Old Testament."
• Pastor, Before You Quit...  (July 11, 2007)
  Joe Mckeever gives counsel to pastors in stressful, high-pressure situations who are thinking of throwing in the towel.