Category Archives: Text Driven Preaching

The Five Most Frustrating Things Pastors Do

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Joe McKeever

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

Theological Vocabulary Thursday
Comforter, Counselor, or … ?

Posted on July 14, 2011 by sbctoday

_______________________________________________________________ By Brian Robertson, Pastor, FBC, Kenton, TN _______________________________________________________________ Words, words, words. My, how their meanings can change. For example, “cool” in today’s verbiage means “great” as well as “cold.” When someone today says, “that’s bad,” they may mean “awesome” or … Continue reading →

Posted in Preaching, Scripture, Text Driven Preaching, Theological Error | 15 Comments

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

Posted on June 27, 2011 by sbctoday

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 →

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The Bible and Big Crowds

Posted on April 6, 2010 by sbctoday

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?

Posted on February 12, 2010 by David Worley

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

Missing the Point of the Text

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Robin Foster

I have passed the half-way point of my two week seminars here at Southwestern. Because of my blogging slavemaster friend, Wes Kenney, :-D I find myself writing a post instead of working on my DMin assignments. Yet I am reminded … Continue reading →

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A Text Driven Devotion

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Robin Foster

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 →

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A Resource for Text-Driven Preaching

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Robin Foster

I do not claim to be a Greek scholar, which is why I need all the tools I can get in order to understand the Greek text. I also don’t believe that one must have a working knowledge of Koine … Continue reading →

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