Dominican Leadership Meeting

Having a wonderful time in a leadership meeting with Oasis in Santiago.  Please keep this church in your prayers. Still going strong at 10pm, three hours so far.  

Watch Yourself!

Just finished my study for my sermon on Sunday, it’s over a text I first expostied 8 years ago for Dr. Akin’s preaching class. I was comparing my notes from my study today with those of 8 years ago just to see how or what changes I made, amazingly the exposition was pretty much the same. But what’s funny is that their are notes on my paper from 8 years ago, and the critical comments are probably still true today regarding my preaching.

“Good expositional comments, good conclusion, work outline into the text, watch yourself in a few statements- Good work overall.”

I still hate sermon outlines with complete sentences that are parallel, and in the present tense; something Akin was weird about. Sermon outlines are far overated in my opinion, isn’t the text, the outline??? And what is a sermon if there isn’t a few “watch yourself” statements.

Ok, Ok, I Twitter!

I’m slowly liking Twitter more and more. Another great forum for connection and community.

The Prosperity Gospel

I mentioned the health/wealth prosperity gospel in my sermon this past week. I tried to communicate how it is not gospel at all. John Piper does it like only John Piper can.