Preach like Perkins: How to Apply the Word of God like a Puritan

Russell St. John, Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church

Puritan preaching consistently offered searing, searching, detailed applications of God’s Word, the likes of which we rarely hear today. What made their applications so powerful? Looking to William Perkins’ Art of Prophesying, this seminar will equip preachers with practical tools by which to apply the Word of God to 1. the spiritual conditions of their hearers, 2. to the spiritually pregnant life circumstances of the men and women in the pews, and 3. to the renewed and renewing consciences of the sheep—in short, to craft applications that bring the Word of God to bear with Puritan-esque specificity and power