Fifteen Ways to Improve Your Preaching and Teaching
How can you become a better preacher and teacher? Here are fifteen ways of improving your preaching and teaching.
How can you become a better preacher and teacher? Here are fifteen ways of improving your preaching and teaching.
This article makes the case for teaching children about the Reformation. Such teaching brings them to know about God's faithfulness to his church, that the church is always in need of reforming, defending the Bible is dangerous but worth the risk, God does extraordinary things through ordinary people, and the gospel is everything. It ends with some suggestions on how to teach them, and some resources worth using.
Are teaching and prophecy the same activity in a New Testament context? Grudem argues that they are distinct activities. He explores the nature of New Testament prophecy and teaching. Relevant passages include 1 Corinthians 11 and 1 Corinthians 14.
What is the work of the pastor? This article maintains that a fundamental aspect of the work of the minister is teaching doctrine (1 Timothy 4:13). The author describes what it means to teach doctrine and what this teaching should look like. In order to fulfill this task, the pastor must also value reading.
The Bible clearly puts a limit on the teaching role of a woman. However, the author of this article distinguishes between the general and special teaching offices. This article shows that Scripture does not forbid women from teaching; however, it should not be at the expense of compromising the limits of Scripture. In addition, the woman must be submissive to the elders, and should not teach based on the false notion of the oppression of women.
Here is provided a vision of evangelical, cross-centred, gospel worship. This is held together with catholic instincts about the ecclesiastic character of worship and charismatic experience of the dynamic of the Spirit in worship.
This article is about using the Word of God in school and Christian education. The importance of teaching about the deeds of God for education is also discussed.
In this article on Zwingli and reformed education, the author also focuses on the importance of instruction for the forming of moral character, and teaching conduct towards other people.
In this article about the authority in education, the fifth commandment is also discussed. It looks at the authority Jesus Christ had in his teaching, and what that means for our Christian schools.
In this article on teaching, the author discusses the problems with teaching, the task of the teacher to explain, to motivate, to discipline and to be a model. The author also looks at the personal struggles of the teacher.