grace also to you, John MacArthur
MEAAAANNN...by God, GENE!!! On this Zeitcast, we are talking about how people can think they are culture-free, but everybody else is shaped by "the culture," inglorious ways of defining the "glory of God," how it's possible to take Revelation literally but not the Sermon on the Mount (!?), the relationship between Jesus and Paul, "the world," "the flesh," and Shusaku Endo's epic novel, Silence. WOOOOO!!!
speaking, on speaking
Do you speak--to any size crowd, behind a podium, or behind a screen? Our daughter Kaitlyn is competing for Miss Teen Oklahoma, so I've been talking to her about speaking--which got me thinking more broadly about the handful of things I most deeply believe about public speaking: as art, as magic, as an opportunity to break something human inside of someone else. Whatever kind of speaking you do or are interested in doing, I hope you find something helpful here! Why for me it's all about relaxing into the moment, avoiding over-hyping yourself to the point of over-shooting the landing, why being hyper aware of your surroundings generally trumps even great content, being vulnerable without over-sharing, and my current mantra: VARY YOUR TONE!
on preaching: preaching as suspense, otherness, and tenderness
Okay so maybe you didn't exactly ask me for a "master class" on preaching, but if I was asked to do one...and only had about an hour to do it...this is everything I would say. And of course I would take an extra ten minutes, because I am, in fact, a preacher.