Articles for tag: Albert Mohler

Preach the Word: How to Embrace Biblical Preaching in the 21st Century

By Chris Philbeck In “The Urgency of Preaching,” Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler begins by asking, “Has preaching fallen on hard times?” The August 28, 2017, blog post goes on to talk about the centrality of preaching in the New Testament church and whether or not that has been diminished in a day when, using Mohler’s words, “some contemporary preachers now substitute messages intentionally designed to reach secular or superficial congregations—messages which avoid a biblical text, and thus avoid a potentially embarrassing confrontation with biblical truth.” Some have called this “needs-based preaching.” And some promote needs-based preaching as