Preaching The Whole Counsel Of God

Preaching the Whole Counsel of God is a primary textbook on the art and science of preaching for pastors and pastors-in-training that teaches you how to practice expository, Christ-focused hermeneutics, combined with Gospel-centered, audience-transforming homiletics. It will guide you to: Discover the truth of the text according to the human author. Discern Christ in the text according to the divine author. Design your sermon with truth, goodness, and beauty. Deliver your sermon in a way that keeps attention, retention, and leads to transformation.

Expository preaching has been on the rise over the last five decades, with more and more pastors preaching through entire books of the Bible systematically. But few, if any, preachers have a long-term plan to teach through every book of the Bible over a lifetime of ministry. Since the whole Bible is God’s Word to his people, all of Scripture is important in order to grow as Christians. Written to make a case for the necessity of a long-term plan for preaching through the entire Bible instead of just through individual books, this is not just a book on how to preach, but also how to plan and prepare long-range preaching programs through the whole counsel of God.

Depicts the life of Saint Paul, discussing his religious teachings and travels.

For more than forty years, pastor R. Kent Hughes has shared the gospel with thousands of people and raised the standard of expository preaching in North America and beyond. To celebrate his legacy and pay tribute to his years of ministry, fifteen of Hughes's friends and colleagues from across the globe, including J.I. Packer, Wayne Grudem, John MacArthur, Peter Jensen, and D.A. Carson, examine what it means to be an expository preacher. Among the contributors are professors, a university chaplain, a college president, and urban church planters-living testimonies to Hughes's wide influence ...

Does your church make you uncomfortable? It’s easy to dream about the “perfect” church—a church that sings just the right songs set to just the right music before the pastor preaches just the right sermon to a room filled with just the right mix of people who happen to agree with you on just about everything. Chances are your church doesn’t quite look like that. But what if instead of searching for a church that makes us comfortable, we learned to love our church, even when it’s challenging? What if some of the discomfort that we often experience is actually good for us? This book is a call to embrace the uncomfortable aspects of Christian community, whether that means believing difficult truths, pursuing difficult holiness, or loving difficult people—all for the sake of the gospel, God’s glory, and our joy.

While strong, gospel-centered preaching abounds, many Christian pastors and lay preachers find it difficult to preach meaningfully from the Old Testament. This practical handbook offers help. Graeme Goldsworthy teaches the basics of preaching the whole Bible in a consistently Christ-centered way. Goldsworthy first examines the Bible, biblical theology, and preaching and shows how they relate in the preparation of Christ-centered sermons. He then applies the biblical-theological method to the various types of literature found in the Bible, drawing out their contributions to expository preaching focused on the person and work of Christ. Clear, complete, and immediately applicable, this volume will become a fundamental text for teachers, pastors, and students preparing for ministry.

The objective and goal of these selected sermons I have written and preached over the past twenty-seven years of my ministry have been an effort to preach and teach the whole counsel of God. The word of God is not unilateral but holistic in its revelation. The word of God speaks truth to every area of the human condition. The gospel we proclaim is not a disembodied gospel. It gives us hope beyond this life, but it also gives us a faith that is relevant and speaks to all areas of our lives. The word of God speaks to us in times of joy, sorrow, and death. The gospel tells us that God was willing to give us His best in giving us His son Jesus Christ, who was willing to come to us when we could not go to Him. The hope and the goal of each of these messages is to show how the word becomes flesh, (i.e.) real and dwells among us in truth and in power. These sermons are the distillations of my challenging and growing years in the Assemblies of Christ Church pulpit and other pulpits I have served over the past twenty-seven years. There are those living and those that have exchanged time for eternity that have encouraged me, who have reminded me that my messages have helped them establish their faith in Jesus Christ and has enlarged their vision of God. "For I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God." Acts 20:27 Dr. Wayne B. Murdock