Preach to Pierce the Heart

“The Puritans were masters of application. It was not merely an element of their preaching but the essence of their preaching. A typical Puritan would not have known whether to laugh or cry if told to leave truth dangling and hope that the Spirit applies it, as some might suggest today. They would have thought that practice both a denial of their pastoral duty and an insult to the Spirit of God.”

Preaching and Perspicuity

“Preachers, are you tempted to imperspicuity in your preaching? Do you unnecessarily drop your knowledge of the original languages in your sermon? Instead of giving your congregation tools to clarify scripture, do you prove your own intellect?”

3 preaching rules

“These are my first ports of call for assessing my own or someone else’s preaching. There is lots more that could be said and fed back on, but this is the centre of what I think we should be aiming for in our preaching. If we miss these, we’ve missed, if I can talk in that language.”