Simone Weil’s two letters on the subject of baptism, to be found in the opening pages of her famous “Waiting for God,” remind me — in certain ignoble places — of my own history with the sacrament. At one point, Weil allows a backgrounding fear to break through her reasoning:
The mere thought that, supposing I [...]
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Against Expository Preaching
By Robert Minto in Criticism, Gospel, Preaching, Rhetoric, ScriptureI am currently reading Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, by Bryan Chapell. I haven’t finished the book yet, so some of what I am about to say may have to be modified at a later date. Still, I have some objections to this whole movement of expository preaching (to the degree that I’ve been [...]
Tags: barth, chapell, Christ-centered Preaching, commentators, expository preaching, John the Baptist, pointing, preachers, Preaching, witness