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I helped my sister with this sermon. I’m proud of her.

Christians will instantly sense if a worship experience will be attractive to their non-Christian friends. They may find a particular service wonderfully edifying for them, and yet know that their non-believing neighbors would react negatively.
Therefore, a vicious cycle persists. Pastors see only Christians present, so they lack incentive to make their worship comprehensible to outsiders. [...]

found via JT’s blog

Tim Keller gives us the importance of preaching the grace of God in Christ before preaching Christian behavior. Otherwise we’ll preach religion instead of the gospel.
From page 2 of the blog post:
We will be careful with the order in which we communicate the parts of the faith. Pushing moral behaviors before we lift up [...]

As a theology major aspiring to be a church planter and a preacher of the gospel, I’m trying to learn from preachers I admire. One of those preachers is Mark Driscoll up at Seattle in Mars Hill Church.
In this blog post, he gives these ten cautions & encouragements for preachers.

Read the biographies of great [...]

The Nativity Story opened yesterday. Are you going to see it?

Trailer (Windows Media format)