Valiant for Truth - Preaching

Today over at the Huffington Post there's a story about a four-year old preacher. The little boy has established a reputation for himself because he first "preached" when he was two years old. 

There is a new expositional commentary series, edited by Jon Payne, called The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament. 

The preacher comes forward not out of a secret place of meditation and power, not with the authority of God’s Word permeating his message, not with human wisdom pushed far into the background by the glory of the Cross, but with human opinions about the social problems of the hour or easy solutions of the vast problem of sin. Such is the sermon. Is there no refuge from strife?

This week, Office Hours talks with Rev. Dr. Dennis Johnson, Professor of Practical Theology at WSC, about his book Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures.

I have noted before that in general terms, commentaries fall into two classes: academic commentaries that are full of scholarship but often not very helpful to preachers, and devotional commentaries that are intended to be helpful to preachers but often make academics wince.