Chapell and Keller on Christ-Centered Preaching

Here are two great seminars by Bryan Chapell on preaching Christ in every message. If the question of whether that is even necessary comes to mind, then all the more reason to listen to these.

A great quote from the second one as he contrasted Christ centered preaching with two other forms: (a) preaching to the will (Christian duty and obedience) and (b) preaching for increased knowledge (Christian doctrine):

"If what we are doing [in preaching] is not creating greater intimacy and obligation to the Savior out of love for Him, then no matter what science [of preaching] we have pursued, we have not got the goal accomplished that God intended from his Word."

1.  http://thegospelcoalition.org/resources/a/The-Heart-of-Christ-Centered-Preaching

2.  http://thegospelcoalition.org/resources/a/The-Hope-of-Christ-Centered-Preaching

Along these same lines, iTunes U has an entire seminar by Edmund Clowney and Tim Keller on this kind of preaching (free--along with other Westminster Seminary lectures. Likewise, Gordon-Conwell has a half-dozen messages too (for a well-worth-it price).

Two options for Training

Here are two options I have been mulling over that are (a) affordable and (b) sound and (c) rigorous.

Ligonier's Certificate Program.

CCEF's Training Program.

CCEF on Youtube

Smorgasbord.

Justin Taylor's 15 Powlison Q&As

Justin:

P&R gave me permission to republish a very helpful Q&A from David Powlison’s essay, “I Am Motivated When I Feel Desire,” included in his excellent book, Seeing With New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture.

He asks and answers 15 questions. I’ll post two per day over the next week.

Here they are.