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    Why Johnny Can’t Preach
    Gordon, T. David. Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2009. 108 pp. $9.99. Homiletics will only get us so far.  Something more is necessary in order for an average preacher to rise above his peers and become a great one.  This book is Dr. T. David Gordon’s attempt to locate that “x-factor.” ...
    by Daniel Moch at August 17th, 2009 at 04:08 am
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    Here’s To Changing Attitudes
    I have a way of getting through something tough and then wishing I could go back and do it again.  It’s not that I enjoy torturing myself.  Rather, it’s that I usually learn a lot under such stress.  Because I knew more coming out of the experience than I did going in, there are some things I would do differently. There is one lesson in particular...
    by Daniel Moch at July 10th, 2009 at 05:07 am
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    Choosing a Church
    As I was writing my previous post, ‘Balancing Church and Seminary,’ I realized that a lot of what I was writing assumed that you were in a time in your life where you needed to choose a church.  But since not everyone in seminary is in such a season of life, it did not make sense for any of that material to be in the final cut.  Still, as I reread what...
    by Daniel Moch at June 17th, 2009 at 03:06 am
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    Balancing Church and Seminary
    Seminary students are a transient bunch.  They blow into town, spend three years too busy to do anything but study, and then they’re gone.  For many of them (or, I should say, us), the whole seminary thing can seem like a hassle.  If we didn’t need to do it, we probably wouldn’t.  But is such pessimism really warranted?  In other words,...
    by Daniel Moch at June 10th, 2009 at 03:06 am