Bryan Chapell: How I Preach
Bryan Chapell: And this is How I Preach …
[Few preachers have been in the forefront of homiletics as the thought-leader of the field featured in this post—Bryan Chapell. His books, blogs, sermons, and talks have all had a great influence on preaching and how preaching is thought of and taught. We shared a speaking engagement together at the Evangelical Homiletics Society’s Annual Meeting recently, and, of course, I tried to snag him in for How I Preach.
Rhythm!
Apparently, not only do we have GPSs in our systems (last week’s blog), but they say we have an internal metronome, too.
A study published last year in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine argued that the human heart quietly marks the entire rhythm of our lives, not just that of blood flow. Whether it ticks at 40–100 beats a minute, in three-quarter time, or in triplets, or erratically, it’s influencing more than the red stuff in our arteries.
In “The Heartfelt Music
Oriented!
Your brain has a GPS! Yes, indeed! Two of them. Working in tandem.
One region in the brain, when travel is commenced, tracks the straight-line, as-the-crow-flies distance from A to B. The other, during travel, computes the precise, on-the-ground distance to get to B. The brain does both!
So declareth research funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in Current Biology: “A Goal Direction Signal in the Human Entorhinal/Subicular Region.”
Hugo Spiers and his team of scientists
Genesis 6:9−9:29
The intercession of the righteous, who themselves escape God’s judgment for sin, precludes further judgment on the world, and the empowerment of mankind to act on God’s behalf keeps ongoing sin under check.
Thus far, while God’s reaction to sin had been somewhat muted, here sin is punished and retribution visited upon all sinners with full intensity—for the first time in Scripture. This narrative, also for the first time, depicts divine choice and the salvation
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.