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Narrative Breaking Series
A story is a story. It should be studied as a story and understood as a story. But what about when you are preaching part of a story? For instance, take the book of Ruth. I had to preach just part… more →
Biblical Preaching
Narrative Breaking Series
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Peter Mead wrote 1 month ago: A story is a story. It should be studied as a story and understood as a story. But what about when … more →
Preaching As Invitation
Peter Mead wrote 1 month ago: In our zeal to do our best, sometimes we might over deliver in a sermon. For example, we might over … more →
The Challenge of Narratives 3: Gospels – Part II
Peter Mead wrote 10 months ago: Note – Peter has extended comments related to this post, see previous in the series here Last … more →
?-Centric Preaching
Peter Mead wrote 10 months ago: There is a lot of discussion about whether preaching is anthropocentric or theocentric (man or God-c … more →
Dealing With Deadened Motivation
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Peter Mead wrote 11 months ago: How are we to deal with a cold heart when we find one sitting in our own chest? How should we respo … more →
Why We Preach
Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: Where there is no vision, the people perish . . . so starts a well-known, oft-quoted and usually mis … more →
Planning a Gospel Series – Four More Suggestions
Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: Here are four more suggestions for planning a gospel series: Decide how many messages the series wil … more →
Planning a Gospel Series – Four Suggestions
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Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: It is a good idea to preach a series from one of the gospels, but it is not easy to plan. There are … more →
Blinkers Off
Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: When preaching a narrative it is important to preach a whole story, but don’t wear blinkers. … more →
The Very Words of God
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Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: Monday’s a good time to pause for thought. Perhaps you preached yesterday. Perhaps you … more →
Complicated Passage, Clear Preaching
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Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: I’m scheduled to preach on of those tricky ones. You know, one of the crux interpretum of the … more →
Why Was the Text Written?
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Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: In a general sense everything written in the Bible was written for our instruction (Rom.15:4). Yet … more →
Think Through The Reading
Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: It is easy to take the reading of the Bible for granted. It is easy to make a mess of it too! For … more →
Preaching Longer Narratives
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Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: Nathan asked about preaching longer narratives, such as the narratives of Daniel. Last week I preac … more →
Preaching Narrative
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Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: When you are preaching a narrative, I think it is healthy to begin with a default approach of tell t … more →
Discourse is Not Just Epistles
Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: When I teach preaching courses, I tend to refer to the three types of Scripture: discourse, narrativ … more →
Getting to Grips with the Genres: Poetry (1)
Mike Roth wrote 1 year ago: Poetry is different from narrative and it is very different from discourse. How though is our preach … more →
Preaching Easter (Pt3): Harmonization and the Gospels
Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: Whenever we preach from the gospels we need to be aware that there may be up to four accounts of the … more →
Preaching Easter (Pt1): Back to Basics
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Peter Mead wrote 1 year ago: In some ways Easter is not like Christmas. The Christmas story tends to remain largely unmentioned … more →
