Review of Renewal Through Restoration: An Uncommon Call to Christian Discipleship by Benny Tabalujan with contributions from Allan McNicol, Steve Wilson, and Evertt Ferguson (Glen Waverley, Australia: Klesis Press, 2021). 230 pages. Available on Amazon.com and at www.klesis.com.au. Review by Harold Shank After preaching for over fifty years, I’ve often wondered what one word would […]
Christians sometimes see only roadblocks to their efforts be Christians in a secular world. We can’t pray in schools. Our neighbors increasingly don’t go to church. Most Americas see Sunday as a time to sleep in. One significant open door that invites the spiritual into the secular is the chaplaincy. The United States military, […]
Christians sometimes see only roadblocks to their efforts be Christians in a secular world. We can’t pray in schools. Our neighbors increasingly don’t go to church. Most Americas see Sunday as a time to sleep in. One significant open door that invites the spiritual into the secular is the chaplaincy. The United States military, […]
Back in the 1990s Scott and I preached at different congregations in the same city. Twenty years later we ran into each other. He probed, “Do you remember our first meeting in Memphis? I asked you for advice. You told me three things.” After blinking and trying not to act embarrassed, I confessed, “I don’t […]
Preachers often ask the question, “What should I preach on this Sunday?” At the Inman Lectures at Ohio Valley University, I proposed that we might find help from a biblical preacher. What if we looked at the 51 “sermons” Isaiah preached in chapter 40-55. Go to audio sermons to down load these three items: 1. […]
During my 20 years of preaching at Highland, I wrote over 1000 sermons. For a period of that time Ron Wade transcribed the sermons into written manuscript form so that the internationals at the congregation could read along with a paper copy as the sermon was preached verbally. Many of those transcribed sermons are now available […]
A study guide for a two quarter, 26 week class, on the Book of Isaiah is now available on this web site. Just click on Bible Studies on the main page. Each of the classes features a commentary on the passage, a teacher’s page and a student sheet. This material is free. Under audio sermons […]
Reflections on Inductive preaching [Portions of this material were presented at Freed Hardeman University on February 10, 2012] What is Inductive Preaching? Inductive Preaching refers to a sermon which unfolds in an inductive way. Generally speaking there are deductive and inductive sermons based on deductive and inductive thinking. How We Think Inductive preaching uses the […]
In Isaiah 28-33 the prophet address people who face a problem. He assures them of the reliability of God in the midst of their crisis. To do so, the prophet describes God’s reliability with two unusual metaphors. First, God is a bird that hovers over Jerusalem (Isa 31:5). He flies over the city protecting it […]
When the Book of Jonah comes up, most people think of the fish. The fish plays a dominant role in the Veggies Tale version of the Old Testament minor prophet. Church art tends to focus on the whale. Apologists seek to find a fish big enough to hold Jonah. But the four chapter prophet is […]