Using Commentaries in Sermon Preparation

http://blog.preachingtoday.com/2007/06/using_commentaries_in_sermon_p.html

[Preaching Today] 1 July 2007-- I took time earlier this week to go back and interact with the comments to all of the June 2007 blog posts. Thanks to all of you who take the time and effort to post comments. The discussion is helpful and stimulating. One recent comment referred to the “common mistake of spending too much time on commentaries.” I’m going to address that issue in this post. To be honest, I know few, if any, pastors who spend too much time in commentaries. But I see a lot of mistakes made in using commentaries. I must confess, too, that I’ve made all of them in the past. So, here are some common “commentary mistakes.”