Sorry for the mental picture, but sometimes I think blogging is intellectual vomiting. I mean that in the best sense of course (if there is a best sense). I think blogging is all about “taking our thoughts captive” (II Corinthians 10:5) and that is the way we become good stewards of our right-brains.

Anywho.

I’m thinking about my philosophy of writing or philosophy of preaching as I get ready for my publishing phone conference next week. If I had to reduce it to a sentence I might describe my approach to communication this way: I try to say old things in new ways and I try to say complicated things in simple ways. The way I do is via metaphors. In a sense, my philosophy of communication boils down to three words: metaphors, metaphors, metaphors. It’s the real estate equivalent to location, location, location.

Oliver Wendel Holmes said, “I wouldn’t give a fig for simplicity on the near-side of complexity.” But he said that “simplicity on the far side of complexity” was priceless. Isn’t that the genuis of Jesus. He was able to communicate complicated theological truths in simple ways. But it wasn’t near-side complexity. It was far-side complexity. That’s what I strive for in my writing and preaching. I honestly believe that it’s the simplest ideas that have the potential to begin the greatest revolutions. Jesus started a revolution by reducing 600+ Old Testament laws into one Great Commandment.