Philip McDuffie

This is the fourth blog post in a series of six posts that are looking at Luther’s view on preaching. So far we have seen an introduction to what Luther’s preaching consisted of. We then looked at how Luther believed that preaching needed to be Word driven. So It needed to saturated with Scripture. After…

Over the past couple of days I have posted two blogs on Luther’s view on preaching. The bulk of these blog posts are taken from a research paper that I wrote for a Martin Luther class that I took in seminary. I have not revised this research paper in order for it to be a…

Yesterday, I shared that I was going to be doing a 6 part series going over Luther’s view on preaching.  After I introduced what I was going to be doing, I posted Part 1 of the series which simply consisted of the introduction. Today, we get to the good stuff though. I say that because…

I have been doing a great deal of studying on Martin Luther for the past six months now. During this time of becoming acquainted with Luther, I have fallen in love with some of his views on preaching. It is for this reason that I wrote a research paper on this very topic. It is…

Biblical Precedence Just like everything, you must understand that something must have biblical precedence in order for you to be motivated to do it. That is why this is first. Here are some verses that give biblical precedence for memorizing Scripture: Colossians 3:16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing…

“We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, ‘Bring the books’-join in the cry.” Spurgeon.…

A Brief Word I wrote this small paper for an internship that I am doing at First Baptist Church Durham in North Carolina. This paper is not exhaustive by any means. This is but an introduction to why Expository preaching is so important. With that being said, I hope to only gain your interest in…