Pastor friends last night makes my life depth in Christ.....that Preach through books of the Bible....showing sequential exposition of biblical books is one of the best ways to ensure a balanced diet for the people. Preaching through an entire Gospel will help you address the historia salutis (the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus), unfold important theological themes (eternal life, kingdom of God, new birth, eschatology), and teach on nitty-gritty matters of Christian discipleship (money, marriage/divorce, prayer). Preaching through selections of Psalms will give ample opportunities to address the life of faith, with its attending struggles, trials, and doubts. However, when preaching through long books (or, if you tend to take short sections of text for your sermons), it may be wise to take just a section of a book. When I preached through the Gospel of Mark, I broke it up into three segments that were interspersed with other sermon series. Join us at Brainstorm Leadership Academy, Nigeria (https://facebook/BrainstormLeadershipAcademyNigeria) as we focus on our continue pastoral Counseling and within the alternate between Testaments and genres of biblical books. If the whole bible is Christian Scripture (and it is), then we should be feeding the flock with both Testaments. So consider alternating between the New Testament and the Old. In a typical year, for example, you might preach five or six series. Your calendar could look something like this: January – March – A 12-week series through a section of the Gospels. April – June– A 10-week series on the life of David, Josephs, Daniel, Job, Abraham. July – August – 8 weeks in one of Paul’s shorter epistles, like Colossians or Philippians reflecting Our Lord Jesus Christ. September – December – 6 weeks in the Psalms, followed by a topical series on the Attributes of God using passages from both Old and New Testaments, and then a short series appropriate to Advent. (I’m assuming, by the way, that even in series of topical sermons, our actual messages will be expositions of Scripture.) 3. Expand your reading. Let’s face it, we can only preach what we’re familiar with and all of us have some gaps in our knowledge of Scripture and theology. That means we need to push outside of our comfort zones in our reading and study. Sponsored by Global Evangelical Network
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:09:54 +0000
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