“Preaching reality and redemption will confront us with our own story. My original question returns: Could I now reach who I once was? This question begs another: Who was I once?” — 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… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“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… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“Moralism explains why preachers are sometimes frustrated. We preach a message; we tell people to be good; we explain how to be good. Then… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“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
