Dear ______: Well I suppose you are right on both counts: I didn’t quite answer your question, and I didn’t explain my most interesting point very well. Sorry. I’ll give it another go. You asked Just how much do pastors depend other people’s commentaries in their sermon development? How much is reading or quoting others […]
Is Faith Simple? Should it Be? (Heidelberg Catechism Q60)
Question 60 is one of the unsung heroes of the Heidelberg Catechism (you know — that’s the summary of biblical Christianity from a Reformed perspective that I’ve been blogging on since it’s 450th anniversary in 2013). Maybe it’s better to say it’s one of the hinge points. You might argue it’s the culmination of the […]
The Lines of the Image (The Writer’s Inner Life)
(This post is third in a series on writing an icon in the Orthodox Christian tradition. To start at the beginning, click here.) If I were more advanced, I would be putting my own drawing on the board. I would work on a classical model, thinking hard about issues of geometry, style, and symbolism as well […]
Gesso on a Wooden Board (The Writer’s Inner Life)
(Second in a series on writing an icon in the Orthodox Christian tradition. Click here to start at the beginning.) It all starts with a white gesso board. No. That’s not right. The board is not actually white with gesso, ready to receive lines and paint, until the fourth step of the process. If I […]
Commentaries in Preaching? (Letters to a Young Pastor)
Dear ______: Glad to hear that the preaching class is moving from frightening to exciting. Preaching should probably always be both. And you are surely right when you suggest that preaching for a preaching class is very different from preaching every single Sunday in a church. Commentaries in preaching That’s true in quite a lot […]
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