reaganmarsh
Puritan Board Senior
Hi Tyler,
Like I said (quite tongue-in-cheek!), he's a stalwart of reformed theology...ha! Just teasing. Rogers was an excellent textual preacher and he had a knack for saying things in a way that stuck with his hearers. I think he's probably my favorite non-Reformed preacher.
Thanks for your kind words re: my preaching. I am still working my way through the Psalms on Wednesday evenings. We're about to begin studying Psalm 18 (yes, I'm slow). I delight in preaching the Psalms, and Psalm 32 had basically grabbed me by the throat for a couple of weeks, demanding to be preached to the whole congregation...so I gave it my best shot in our Lord's Day PM worship. I suppose my struggle with the sermon is that the text is so magnificent and full; and I felt that I wasn't able to do it justice.
Some days, even my best shots run out of steam and flop to the ground, lifeless. And I'm learning in those moments to give thanks to God, who works through his powerful Word, that the excellency of the power is of him and not me. The covenant of grace is sure and ordered in all things; the Spirit is sovereign and works what he wills, as he wills, in the hearts of God's elect; and the word of the cross is life unto life. My wisdom may be (and often is!) in short supply, my communication may be bungled, my attempts at exposition may be feeble and struggling; but God's word is not chained.
So there you have it. Now you know how to pray for me!
Like I said (quite tongue-in-cheek!), he's a stalwart of reformed theology...ha! Just teasing. Rogers was an excellent textual preacher and he had a knack for saying things in a way that stuck with his hearers. I think he's probably my favorite non-Reformed preacher.
Thanks for your kind words re: my preaching. I am still working my way through the Psalms on Wednesday evenings. We're about to begin studying Psalm 18 (yes, I'm slow). I delight in preaching the Psalms, and Psalm 32 had basically grabbed me by the throat for a couple of weeks, demanding to be preached to the whole congregation...so I gave it my best shot in our Lord's Day PM worship. I suppose my struggle with the sermon is that the text is so magnificent and full; and I felt that I wasn't able to do it justice.
Some days, even my best shots run out of steam and flop to the ground, lifeless. And I'm learning in those moments to give thanks to God, who works through his powerful Word, that the excellency of the power is of him and not me. The covenant of grace is sure and ordered in all things; the Spirit is sovereign and works what he wills, as he wills, in the hearts of God's elect; and the word of the cross is life unto life. My wisdom may be (and often is!) in short supply, my communication may be bungled, my attempts at exposition may be feeble and struggling; but God's word is not chained.
So there you have it. Now you know how to pray for me!