Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) wholeheartedly affirmed the sovereignty of God and the biblical doctrine of election. He also wholeheartedly affirmed the obligation to preach the gospel to all men and persuade all men to turn to
The only reason the State recognizes my right to officiate a wedding and sign a marriage license is because a local Christian church ordained me as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thus,
Below are excerpts of a sermon by the great pastor, theologian, and apologist Andrew Fuller (1754-1815). I have added the headings but the text is entirely taken from Fuller’s sermon on Philippians 3:10. “Being made
Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) That saved a wretch like me! The man who wrote the hymn Amazing Grace had once earned his living as the captain of a slave ship. On those slave
John Crysostom (345-407) is widely regarded as one of the greatest preachers who ever lived. His preaching was bold and fearless. He was known as “golden mouth,” orator and yet he preached a plain spoken style that
After giving a talk on sports and Christian discipleship in a seminary context, a professor approached me and said, “We don’t need sports to accomplish our Christian gospel mission, so why would we care?” It
Graeme Goldsworthy is retired lecturer in Old Testament, biblical theology, and hermeneutics at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia. Goldsworthy is a Reformed, evangelical Anglican scholar who spent many years in full-time pastoral ministry. Arguably
When you read the Bible as if it is all about you instead of all about Jesus, the tendency is to jump from any heroic person or action to yourself. Therefore, you read the Bible
It is not uncommon to hear a seminary professor or Bible student assert that expository preaching or biblical theology cannot genuinely be done without a thoroughgoing knowledge of the original languages. I had the privilege
After teaching preaching for almost a decade at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, some questions and objections appear every semester like clockwork when I begin to lecture on expository preaching and propose the following definition: