Starting Strong: A Podcast to Ignite Your Preaching
While there is much value in listening to the American voices which dominate the Christian podcasting scene, Australia has many seasoned preachers with worthwhile advice.
While there is much value in listening to the American voices which dominate the Christian podcasting scene, Australia has many seasoned preachers with worthwhile advice.
It is good to disciple people to be motivated listeners who are eager for and attentive to faithful preaching. But we preachers should also work hard on connecting and engaging, so our hearers don’t have to work quite so hard.
Jesus wasn’t engaged in a religious campaign to get people to believe. He called everyone to come to him! He was the centre of his gospel of the kingdom.
If we think Job is about why we suffer, then the LORD’s refusal to answer Job on that question seems confusing and rude. But if we see that Job is about trusting God when we don’t know why we suffer, then God’s reply makes sense.
An emphasis on holism and integration is strengthened by placing the whole of ourselves in the context of the whole of creation. Our whole-hearted, whole-self response to God and his word is a subset of our whole-hearted, whole-self existence as his creatures.