Expository Preaching: 1. Emulates biblical preaching both in content and style. 2. Best achieves the biblical intent of preaching: delivering God’s message. 3. Promotes scripturally authoritative preaching. 4. Magnifies God’s Word. 5. Provides a storehouse of preaching material. 6. Develops the pastor as a man of God’s Word. 7. Ensures the highest level of biblical knowledge for the flock 8. Leads to thinking and living biblically. 9. Encourages both depth and comprehensiveness. 10. Forces treatment of hard-to-interpret texts. 11. Allows for handling broad theological themes. 12. Keeps preachers away from ruts and hobbyhorses. 13. Prevents the insertion of human ideas. 14. Guards against misinterpretation of the biblical text. 15. Imitates the preaching of Christ and the apostles. 16. Brings out the best in the expositor.
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#1 · September 28, 2003, 12:11 am

Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>

 
<><> Know What Your Doing <><> 
 
My teenaged niece Elizabeth was nervous as she took the wheel
for her first driving lesson.  As she was pulling out of the
parking lot, the instructor said, "Turn left here, and don't
forget to let the people behind you know what you're doing."
 
Elizabeth turned to the students sitting in the backseat and
announced, "I'm going left."
 
 <><> Rules Kids Won't Learn At School <><> 
 
Rule #1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "it's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often, you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule #1.
 
Rule #2. The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
 
Rule #3. Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.
 
Rule #4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he is not going ask you how feel about it.
 
Rule #5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
 
Rule #6. It's not your parents fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
 
Rule #7. Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
 
Rule #8. Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Nor even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new lease on life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on.
 
Rule #9. Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom, nor a soap opera. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be perky or as polite as Jennifer Aniston.
 
Rule #10. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them We all could.
 
Rule #11. Enjoy this while you can. Sure, parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be kid. Maybe you should start now.
 
 
<><> Sidewalk <><> 
 
It was very windy, and she was only
 six years old and small for her age.
When her mother asked her to clean off
 the front sidewalk, the wind nearly
blew her away. She picked up the
broom countless times, but each time,
the wind got the best of her and
 knocked her over.
 
 Her mother came out
 a few minutes later to see how
 she was doing and found her
stuffing rocks in her pocket. "I thought
 you were cleaning off the sidewalk,"
her mother said.
"What in the world are you doing?"
 

The child replied:
"Now? I weigh me down to sweep."
 
 
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