“That God is real means that God exists, that God is transparent toward what is there without forgery or deception, and that what God says and does aligns truthfully with what is. Preaching that is from God must therefore exist… — 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
“We learn a wisdom kind of outreach, an evangelism or testimony as those who are human beings wrestling with it all. It is as… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“But what if differences are made by remembering where we’d be without God and then ministering to others out of that knowledge? What if… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“When preachers seek to identify the under-the-sun features of a biblical text, they are looking for the Context of Reality (COR). By the Context… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
