Catching Up and Walking On

This weekend the Ice family will be making strides against breast cancer in fabulous downtown Nashville.  Laura’s folks are coming in for the weekend and my mother will also be walking, so its a whole-family affair.  Laura has assembled another “Jean Team” to walk in memory of her beloved colleague from Una Church’s Mothers Day Out program.  [...]

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Our Bodies a Sacrifice

Our Bodies a SacrificeCentral ChurchSunday Morning, December 16, 2007McGarvey Ice Text: Romans 12.1-21One of the strategies for reading an occasional letter like Romans is mirror-reading. That is, since Romans is written out of an occasion in the life of its author and its recipients, then it naturally follows that the content of the letter addresses [...]

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We do not lose heart

We Do Not Lose Heart…Homecoming Sermon for Lindsley Avenue ChurchOctober 14, 2007McGarvey Ice Text: 2 Corinthians 4.1 :…since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart…. [NASB] Trouble in the Biblical TextSIGH Look at what we are up against! Division, personal enemies and opponents of our ministry who would discredit [...]

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What makes poor teaching poor?

In no particular order: questionable exegesis (the homework hasn’t been done), condescension, cheese, insulting the intelligence of the audience, dramatics, one-sidedness, oversimplification, overcomplication

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What makes good teaching good?

in no particular order: clarity, passion, rigorous exegesis, eye-contact, willingness to say “I do not know” when you do not know, theological acumen, humility

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A Few Plain Rules for Preachers

The following which we clipped several years ago, and put in our Scrap-book, is as applicable now as then, and may be useful to a good many preachers, and will do none of them any harm to observe. Be very sure to understand the text yourself, before you attempt to make others understand it. Be [...]

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A Homily for Congregational Historians

2006 Stalcup Seminar for Local Church Historians A Homily for Congregational HistoriansMcGarvey IcePublic Services Archivist Psalm 105.1-6 : O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wonderful works. Glory in his holy name; let the [...]

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Maintaining the Institution or Furthering the Mission?, A Sermon

Maintaining the Institution or Furthering the Mission?A Sermon for GB 5613-01, Preaching Biblical GenresHazelip School of TheologyDr. John O. York , ProfessorOctober 16, 2006Mac Ice Text: Luke 6.1-11 – One Sabbath while Jesus was going through the grain fields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. But [...]

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