Who is this Sermon For?

I've had a very interesting situation in the last couple of days. I was invited to preach a sermon of my choice in a church a few weeks ago. Now for the record I find that freedom to pray and choose a passage to share with God's people very hard to enjoy. Here I prefer …

Subtle Problems still need Subtle Prayers

Whenever we go to the hospital we immediately realise two things, there are many sick people out there and many with more serious conditions than us. It's easy to feel whatever is ailing us is nothing compared to what our neighbour is going through. Haven't you had that feeling when people are sharing prayer points? …

Faithful Preaching that Doesn’t Bore to Death

When I started expository preaching someone told me I was teaching and not preaching. Now when you get a feedback like that in an African context you know that was one boring lecture. Just think about that lesson you didn't like in college or highschool and imagine having it just before lunch with a teacher …

Sunday Morning Junkies

Many times when we criticize preaching and call out false teaching we have the preachers in mind. We think if we rid the country of false teachers our churches will be sound and our theology right. But there's a great contibutor to false doctrine that we let go easy. We forget the supply is only …

The Gospel strategy picked up by Coca-Cola

The greatest and most well known companies of the world still spend so much on advertising and they do that in the most prime hour. You won't watch the news to the end before seeing an Ad from Coca-Cola even though when we say soft drink in any event that's all anyone thinks. Why? Because …

The Gospel is a Person

***** I recently had an opportunity to preach through Romans 1-3 and it struck me how obvious the Person at the heart of the Gospel message is and yet how easy it is to miss him in our preaching and testimonies. That the Gospel God promised through the prophets, the Gospel he preached through the …