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Simon Tomkins sees what happens when the author of the Second Homily (Book I) meets Marketing...

When did you last hear a sermon that spent 50% of the time on application? J. I. Packer has insightfully analysed contemporary and historic approaches to preaching over his years as a pastor and scholar.

In this featured article, drawn from the summer edition of Churchman, Benjamin Dean outlines Packer’s approach to preaching. Dean writes,

“For Puritan homiletics Packer regards the following principles as axiomatic:

Sam Brewster considers a special homily, and the Archbishop who composed it.

Christopher Henderson considers the place of the corporate confession of sins in our liturgy.

Evangelicals don’t seem to talk about beauty much, perhaps in reaction against what is seen as a worldly emphasis on created things, or religious traditions in which external show dominates over spiritual reality. However, we are created beings, embodied souls, and the beauty of the created order is something we are to receive with thanksgiving. More than that, beauty is a profound concept, and the beauty of God very much so.

The Prayer of Humble Access, composed by Thomas Cranmer and familiar to most, if not all, Anglicans, helps us to approach the Lord’s Supper with a right view of ourselves and a right expectation of what we are to receive.

Ed. Heading off on holiday this summer? Why not get hold of Ed Shaw's The Plausibility Problem for a bit of holiday reading. Robin Weekes tells us why in this review from the latest edition of Churchman:

John Telford turns to the BCP to explore how families can best be prepared for the baptism of their child.