The Difference Between Myth and Parable & How That Informs Our Preaching
In Will Willimon’s outstanding book on preaching, The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized, he mentions a distinction that John Crossan (in his book The Dark Interval) makes between myth and parable. Willimon sums up Crossan’s view like this, “Myth attempts to mediate opposites, explain mystery, reconcile polarities, to take the randomness of life and […]
Thanks to Paul Smith
I appreciate Paul Smith’s recent link to my blog in regard to the recent posts here on evangelism. In Paul’s post Creating a Positive Method of Evangelism he shares some of his own thoughts on evangelism and conversion. I hope you will head over to his blog and read his thoughts on evangelism, especially his […]
Making Vision Stick by Andy Stanley
One thing I have noticed in my first ten years of ministry is that vision is easy to cast but hard to make stick. There are so many good and godly ideas that we can talk about. There are so many biblical directives and directions we can take. Communicating those things is easier than doing […]