I love to preach Christ resurrected and hope to capture the missing middle ground that has fallen away in contemporary exposition of the Bible. Here is where I stand.
Archive for the ‘Homelitics’ Category
What I love about preaching
Posted in Homelitics, Preaching (Homiletics) on 17 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Where my preaching is positioned: Affective
Posted in Homelitics, Inspiriation, My Ministry (God's ministry through me), Preaching (Homiletics), Reflections on 17 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Affective Over Cognitive? Undoubtedly my views on Affective preaching will be controversial and many will disagree with me because they are very much into Cognitive preaching, but my reasons for prefering Affective are not without merit. Cognitive preaching is effectively an attempt to reach heads over hearts, while Affective preaching is preaching from the heart [...]
Where my preaching is positioned: Inductive
Posted in Homelitics, Inspiriation, My Ministry (God's ministry through me), Preaching (Homiletics), Reflections on 15 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
For my Homiletics class at Wesley, I have been reading my compulsory text, “Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures”, by Kenton C. Anderson. Having gone through chapter 3, which explores the dynamics of Deductive Preaching vs. Inductive Preaching, I have tonight been reading chapter 4, which delves into the two [...]
Historical and Exegetical Essays
Posted in Bible college, Bible translations, Homelitics, Old Testament, Theology Study on 10 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Later this semester at Bible college, I’m scheduled to write two essays for the topic ‘Old Testament Background and Methodology’: one is a historical essay, which will be on the geographical and historical background of the passage (I’m going to do that on Judges 사사기 17-18); and a second exegetical essay. For that one I [...]
Other favoured preachers
Posted in Homelitics, Preaching (Homiletics) on 10 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Other preachers that I like are the late Derek Prince and Tim Keller. Keller is sensational. Rob Bell’s teaching is on a dangerous Barth-like trajectory and Rick Warren is beggining to tread on dangerous ground in not wanting to preach sin. I also have problems with Warren’s Purpose Driven Life and admittedly have never been a [...]
John Piper and preaching crisis
Posted in Homelitics, Preaching (Homiletics), Quotes on 9 August, 2011 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
In homiletics, my favourite subject at the moment, I am reading up on the preaching style of phenomenological homiletician David Buttrick versus that of the inductive theories of Fred Craddock. I must admit that I am an enormously big subscriber to Craddock’s thoughts, that sermons tend to be far too top-down and deductive and alienate [...]
Preaching and the candy store
Posted in Bible college, Grief, Hell and Judgement, Homelitics, Lamentation and Woe, Old Testament, Theology Study on 1 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to new books, I’m like a kid in a candy store. Today I gorged myself on some theological candy with the arrival of the book Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures by Kenton C. Anderson. Anderson is the head of a homiletics organisation in North America and [...]
Week 1 at Wesley
Posted in Bible college, Homelitics, Old Testament, Theology Study on 27 July, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
So now I have finished my first week at Wesley! I think by far the easiest topic for me will be Old Testament Background and Methodology- given my real passion for the OT- followed by Homelitics II and Theological Foundations II. TFII will involve lots of reading and a lot of in-depth thinking: in short [...]
