By: David Murray

David Murray — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:01:06 +0000

Thanks for your input, Anthony. I appreciate your comments. I do actually cover this, albeit very briefly, under “Consecutive texts,” where I say: “While preachers may choose a portion of Scripture for consecutive exposition from different books each week, it is also a common practice to work systematically through one chapter or one book over a number of weeks.” But I admit, this way of “choosing a text” could be more prominent in the chapter. I’ll give some thought to that when I post the complete ebook next week.Please don’t view this as an exhaustive book on preaching. There are plenty of those. This is really just a simple introduction, initially prepared for elders who preached from time to time, and secondly for seminary students just starting out. Experienced preachers like yourself might get the odd little crumb to help them!

By: Anthony Douglas

Anthony Douglas — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:38:59 +0000

There’s some good stuff in these chapters, but I felt I couldn’t pass by without critiquing a gaping hole here in your possible text selections. Surely it’s at least an option to preach on the passage that follows last week’s!As a regular habit, I like to preach through a book, so that along the way, the congregation is implicitly equipped to handle that particular book themselves. As well as its genre. This also models an expectation that the books in the Bible are coherent, rather than a grabbag of sermon texts. Now, you may well do the same, but it isn’t even hinted at in this chapter. I suspect it should be!

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