In my blog post on Willow Creek, I said that many Reformed evangelicals think of sound, expository preaching as something of a ‘magic bullet.’ We may think that as long as we are preaching the Word–preaching the law and the gospel rightly–that everything else in congregational life will somehow take care of itself. We may [...]
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“Land Right There”
September 24, 2009 – 9:07 AM
Kevin DeYoung has an excellent post this morning on preaching, preachers and application. He cautions pastors against always ending sermons with application points in the form of imperatives. DeYoung argues if we do this, we may miss the vital point of the particular text being expounded for “many texts are not about oughts.”
For example, DeYoung [...]