If you are a regular listener to Office Hours then you are probably a regular listener to sermons. If not, perhaps we should talk about that. You might be a preacher of sermons. Either way, at least 52 times a year, for as much as 4 days out of each year, either as hearer or preacher, you are involved with sermons. Yet, despite the time we all spend together preaching and listening to sermons, we Christians do not always come to sermons with the same expectations. We do not all understand or agree about what is happening. What is a sermon? Does the minister sit around thinking of clever things to say during the week? Is the sermon instruction in how-to, is it the minister’s opinion, like a one-sided Sunday talk show, a dramatic presentation, or is it a technical lecture, a Bible study, or just what is going on?

Julius Kim teaches preaching at Westminster Seminary California and he has published a a new book, Preaching the Whole Counsel of God: Design and Deliver Gospel-Centered Sermons.

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• R. Scott Clark

  

  R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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