I recently completed reading Doctrine that Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life by my friend, Dr. Robert Smith, Jr. of Beeson Divinity School. The book was selected by Preaching Magazine as the Book of the Year. Chapter 6, “Maintaining Doctrinal Balance” is a great chapter. In Chapter 6 the author reminds the preacher …

I just completed my message for Sunday from Luke 17:1-19.  Only after several hours of prayer and study, did I finally land on four lessons we can learn from this passage. At first glance, verses 1-19 appear to be a random collection of teachings or proverbs from Jesus.  However, after deeper study, I realized these …