My name is Johann Odendaal and I am in South Africa, serving as the Admin Dean of Christ Seminary in the Limpopo Province. The Seminary has students from 14 different African countries and also students from Europe and the USA.

I am also giving out a magazine, Preaching and Preachers, that we sent out to a large group of leaders. I came accross some good articles on preaching as well as the Ten Questions series. My question is if we may use some of these to publish in this magazine committed to expository preaching with full acknowledgement of the source?

I would like to hear from you.

Thank you in Christ

Johann Odendaal, SOuth Africa

Brethren, let us look well to our own steadfastness in the faith, our own holy walking with God. Some say that such advice is selfish; but I believe that, in truth, it is not selfishness, but a sane and practical love of others which leads us to be mindful of our own spiritual state. … He who has learned to swim has fostered a proper selfishness, for he has thereby acquired the power of helping the drowning.

David Reimer

of particular edification/exhortation was #7:
McCheyne is right, I think, when he says, “My people have no greater need than my own holiness.” So, a failure to live a holy life is peril that must be avoided. Related to that: laziness; unfaithfulness; failure to watch his life and doctrine; and, a failure to watch over the sheep entrusted to his care. A man can mask a multitude of deficiencies and sins with a strong public preaching gift. If he takes that wide road it will lead to the destruction of his ministry, and to great harm among the sheep. So let us not leave off holiness and integrity.

-amen