“Feeling good is overrated.” Those were the words of a sports psychologist speaking to a group of athletes. He was explaining that focusing on feeling good to perform well is problematic for any athlete. Occasionally,
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hebert, the lead pastor of Taylor Memorial Baptist Church in Hobbs, New Mexico. You can follow him on Twitter at @andrewhebert86. I’ve always considered myself to be
The Apostles judge our hermeneutics we do not judge theirs. We proceed on the basis of the dual authorship and organic unity of Scripture. The Scripture possesses a canonical Sensus Plenior. Ultimately the locus of
Almost eleven years ago, when I became the pastor at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, a well-meaning church member came to me with a request, “When you are going to preach an evangelistic sermon, will you
“The predictable Jesus bit” is how Graeme Goldsworthy summarizes a common caricature of Christocentric preaching that stresses the Scripture’s organic unity (Preaching the Whole Bible, xi). Some of the loudest critics of Christ-centered redemptive-historical preaching
Christ-centered expository preaching is more than pinning John 3:16 to the tail of the sermon. It is also more than a weekly theological treatise that speaks eloquently of the glories of Jesus Christ but lacks