“Once preachers start to identify the Context of Reality for a biblical passage, our unspoken expository bans become apparent. By an expository ban I refer to those aspects of reality that we tend to avoid or that are culturally forbidden… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“A basic guide for application offers this equation: The intention of the text The human condition of the text The human situation of the… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“we want to expand Chapell’s FCF to more explicitly account for the global contexts. This means that we must fit the FCF for unchurched and in-between cultural contexts as well. The expanded definition for this homiletic tool looks like this: The Fallen Condition Focus (FCF) is the mutual human condition that contemporary believers or nonbelievers share with those to or… — Zack Eswine Copy Share
“you were never meant to repent because you don’t know it all. You are meant to repent because you’ve tried.” — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“A pastor impatiently demands his children to know, believe, and do what it took him twenty-five or forty-five years with Jesus to know, believe,… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“Biblical preaching must address three important questions: (1) What kinds of people in our community do we exclude from sitting with us and hearing… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“To make true contact is to touch the real thing, to treasure the flower more than the picture of the flower, the person more… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“Often the cynic is wise toward reality but a simpleton toward redemption. The cynic offers thick and nuanced description of the swamps and the Challenger Deep but has little more than trite or formulaic expressions for beauty. Preachers must learn to describe something more than sin if they hope to preach redemption for the bogs of a post-everything world. To… — Zack Eswine Copy Share
“Moralism explains why preachers are sometimes frustrated. We preach a message; we tell people to be good; we explain how to be good. Then the next week they are caught doing something bad. We don’t understand how someone can be told what to do and still do the wrong thing—unless we take a look at our own life and acknowledge… — Zack Eswine Copy Share
“grace leads us to reflect Christ’s holiness, but grace also motivates and enables us to reflect his mercy for the poor, his care for… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“Therefore, those of you searching for something larger, faster, and more significant, who feel that if you could just be somewhere else doing something… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“Preaching reality and redemption will confront us with our own story. My original question returns: Could I now reach who I once was? This… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
