Category Archives: Expository Preaching

The Five Most Frustrating Things Pastors Do

By Joe McKeever, Preacher, former Pastor of seven churches, and retired Director of Missions at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans. I’m pro-pastor, but I’m not blind. These men (in our denomination, pastors are men) are called of God … Continue reading

Posted in Expository Preaching, Pastors, Preaching, Text Driven Preaching, Young Pastors | 3 Comments

Monday Sermon Idea
To Be a Christian
(Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28; and 1 Peter 4:16)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, AL ———————————— These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and other church leaders, both from the exposition and from the … Continue reading

Posted in Expository Preaching, Gospel issues, Preaching, Regenerate Church Membership, Scripture, Testimony, Text Driven Preaching | Leave a comment

The Bible and Big Crowds

I heard a Pastor say that we should not teach and preach the Bible verse by verse, because the people will just not get it. That expository preaching is just for preachers; that only preachers would understand it. Thus, we … Continue reading

Posted in Contextualization, Expository Preaching, Pastors, Text Driven Preaching, Theological Error, Uncategorized | 47 Comments

Baptists? Methodists? Presbyterians? Charismatics?

Something that I’ve been observing for quite some time now, and especially here lately, is that a lot of people, who belong to Baptist Churches, could join a Church of another denomination and couldn’t tell any difference.  I can’t tell … Continue reading

Posted in Baptist Identity, BF&M, Doctrine, Ecumenical, Expository Preaching, Pastors, Preaching, SBC, SBC Issues, Scripture, Text Driven Preaching, Theological Error, Young Pastors | 108 Comments

Misunderstanding, Monikers, and Misrepresentations: Reflections of an Under 40 Pastor in the SBC Part 2

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those … Continue reading

Posted in Doctrine, Expository Preaching, Gospel issues, Pastors, Preaching, SBC Perspective | Leave a comment

A Text Driven Devotion

Below is a brief devotional I was asked to compose for the Stillwater News Press. Further down, after the devotion, I will provide some analysis on how I came up with my four points, specifically focusing on verse thirteen of … Continue reading

Posted in Discipleship, Education, Expository Preaching, Preaching, Text Driven Preaching | Leave a comment

Preaching in a Great Commission Resurgence

I guess I am still pondering the sermon that Dr. Albert Mohler gave at this years FBC Jacksonville Pastors Conference. It is one sermon that made me reflect on my own ministry. I also picked up Dr. Mohler’s book on … Continue reading

Posted in Baptist Identity, Expository Preaching, Great Commission Resurgence | Leave a comment