Comments on: The Devil Is a Boring Preacher: The High Stakes of Dull Sermons http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/ By Russell D. Moore. Russell D. Moore serves as the teaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. In addition, Dr. Moore is the Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Find sermons and other resources to help Christians engage the culture from a biblical worldview at www.russellmoore.com. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:53:37 +0000 By: JoAnn Ford http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-3098 JoAnn Ford Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:00:17 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-3098 No politics, no partisanship, no agenda...just a very specific and poignant directive: Matthew 25:31-46 No politics, no partisanship, no agenda…just a very specific and poignant directive: Matthew 25:31-46

]]> By: Intersected » Blog Archive » Satan is a boring preacher http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-922 Intersected » Blog Archive » Satan is a boring preacher Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:25:39 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-922 [...] From Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice-President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as a preaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church, where he ministers weekly at the congregation’s Fegenbush location. The best way to outwit the Evil One is to anticipate how his powers will seek to counter-act your preaching. It’s helpful for me to think as I’m preparing to preach of all the ways my own heart seeks to evade the truth of the text. Once, as I was studying to preach on a Beatitude, I realized that I was treating the text exactly the way a liberal would treat a passage forbidding women in the pastorate: “Well, it can’t mean that, what it appears to say, so…” [...] [...] From Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice-President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as a preaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church, where he ministers weekly at the congregation’s Fegenbush location. The best way to outwit the Evil One is to anticipate how his powers will seek to counter-act your preaching. It’s helpful for me to think as I’m preparing to preach of all the ways my own heart seeks to evade the truth of the text. Once, as I was studying to preach on a Beatitude, I realized that I was treating the text exactly the way a liberal would treat a passage forbidding women in the pastorate: “Well, it can’t mean that, what it appears to say, so…” [...]

]]> By: e. barrett http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-878 e. barrett Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:38:17 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-878 Very great point. I think sometimes we rail too much against "entertaining" sermons and not enough against "boring" sermons. Very great point. I think sometimes we rail too much against “entertaining” sermons and not enough against “boring” sermons.

]]> By: The Preaching of Satan… « Above Every Name http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-870 The Preaching of Satan… « Above Every Name Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:07:27 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-870 [...] Dr. Moore’s Article Here Comments [...] [...] Dr. Moore’s Article Here Comments [...]

]]> By: So You Want to Preach? « For His Renown http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-869 So You Want to Preach? « For His Renown Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:40:17 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-869 [...] Posted by Jim Hamilton on April 18, 2009 Here’s a challenge from Russell D. Moore: Don’t be a boring preacher like Satan! [...] [...] Posted by Jim Hamilton on April 18, 2009 Here’s a challenge from Russell D. Moore: Don’t be a boring preacher like Satan! [...]

]]> By: deTheos » Blog Archive » Relevant http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-855 deTheos » Blog Archive » Relevant Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:52:50 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-855 [...] speaking of Boring , Russell Moore has a great take on the topic [...] [...] speaking of Boring , Russell Moore has a great take on the topic [...]

]]> By: The Blog Patrol (April 14, 2009) « Wayne’s Random Thoughts http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-841 The Blog Patrol (April 14, 2009) « Wayne’s Random Thoughts Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:23:03 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-841 [...] The Devil is Preacher: The High Stakes of Dull Sermons [...] [...] The Devil is Preacher: The High Stakes of Dull Sermons [...]

]]> By: Barry W. Stone http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-836 Barry W. Stone Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:32:45 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-836 Dr. Moore, What a challenging message to preachers. I love the creative and thought-provoking mind that you have to write on things that really hit home. May God raise men to preach like Jesus, the prophets and apostles. We have enough of Satan's boring preachers we need more of God's fire-baptized preachers! Barry Dr. Moore,

What a challenging message to preachers. I love the creative and thought-provoking mind that you have to write on things that really hit home. May God raise men to preach like Jesus, the prophets and apostles. We have enough of Satan’s boring preachers we need more of God’s fire-baptized preachers!

Barry

]]> By: Ryan Szrama http://www.russellmoore.com/2009/04/14/the-devil-is-a-boring-preacher-the-high-stakes-of-dull-sermons/#comment-835 Ryan Szrama Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:33:44 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=2320#comment-835 Wonderful message, Dr. Moore. I'll be prayerfully considering these things in my lesson preparation, but I also appreciate your application to our personal study of the Scriptures. Especially when considering mysteries like the Atonement / Incarnation / Trinity it can be easy to look at the Bible like it's a puzzle waiting to be solved or a complex web of data that needs to be ordered properly to ensure a Scriptural understanding of God. I'd also be interested to hear more about that Beatitude... I love Martyn Lloyd-Jones's teaching on the topic and have benefited from it greatly. I'm thinking right now about how to go from a Beatitude NOT being descriptive of me to it being descriptive. i.e. when my appetite for righteousness is next to nil, should I be content to sit at square 1 (poor in spirit) for the Spirit to re-establish a hunger and a thirst? Whatever the cure, I'm sure that reading my Bible differently can't and won't hurt. Thanks again for the encouragement here. Wonderful message, Dr. Moore. I’ll be prayerfully considering these things in my lesson preparation, but I also appreciate your application to our personal study of the Scriptures. Especially when considering mysteries like the Atonement / Incarnation / Trinity it can be easy to look at the Bible like it’s a puzzle waiting to be solved or a complex web of data that needs to be ordered properly to ensure a Scriptural understanding of God.

I’d also be interested to hear more about that Beatitude… I love Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s teaching on the topic and have benefited from it greatly. I’m thinking right now about how to go from a Beatitude NOT being descriptive of me to it being descriptive. i.e. when my appetite for righteousness is next to nil, should I be content to sit at square 1 (poor in spirit) for the Spirit to re-establish a hunger and a thirst?

Whatever the cure, I’m sure that reading my Bible differently can’t and won’t hurt. Thanks again for the encouragement here.

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