The Good News to an unbeliever is not good until it is actually news.  The gospel is divinely sanctioned to be heard.  If faith cometh by hearing (and it does), then the preacher should be speaking those things pertaining to the gospel.  How else, as Paul contends, can the unregenerate believe?

I love expository preaching.  And I love enthusiastic preaching.  Furthermore, I love evangelistic preaching.  The world needs me to love it, and God commands me to do it.  Evangelistic preaching is not only the call of New Testament Christianity; it is the heartbeat of the church.  A church that …

Any preacher who captures the heart of his congregation must have his own heart captured by the Word He is preaching.  Nothing is better than hearing a man of God who is altogether and convincingly sold on the message he proclaims.  Nothing is worse, however, than hearing someone speak who lacks passion and possession of the Holy Spirit of God.  The half-hearted man who enters the pulpit with a half-hearted message needs to sit down until the other half if ready.

Doing the work of exposition must be coupled with enthusiastic fervor.  No one uncovers a buried treasure without an …

The Lord God created the sun, the moon, and the stars to give us the precious gift and commodity of time.  From His eternal, incontrovertible presence, time was set into motion.  And though He is not bound by time, nor subject to it, His omnipresent qualities permit Him to exist within the calendar of our world while simultaneously existing in the world eternal.  What a profound thought: God is not in eternity; rather, eternity is in God.  Therefore, all things exist for His ultimate glory, even time.  The Lord initiated the clock of history, and humanity has heard the perpetual …

“Read,” said Harold Ockenga, “to refill the wells of inspiration.”  Every year I catalogue the books I have digested over the past twelve months to see which ones have “filled up my wells.”  Not every book is helpful, not every author is accurate, and not every chapter is inspiring, but if you pick through enough books, you’ll eventually find something to eat.  Like a cheap buffet, sometimes you have to pass over a ton of food to get the right entrée on your plate.  You can’t take it all in, and you’re not supposed to.  Sir Francis Bacon said it …

God did not design us to be spiritual hermits who congregate with other spiritual hermits once a week in religious cathedrals.  No, He employs us to live out our Christianity in a world that desperately needs to see His love, His power, and His grace.  The believer is called to a daily, cross-bearing lifestyle, one that overtakes every area of our lives – even our jobs.

God has placed us in secular surroundings for His own glory and purpose in the world. Not everyone mounts a pulpit on a Sunday morning to proclaim an alliterated outline; but all of us, …