What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote an article for Harper’s Magazine entitled What’s the Matter with Preaching?. In the article Fosdick, former pastor of the famed Riverside Church in New York, gives …
Solving Real Problems in Sermons Read More
The Biblical Preaching Blog has a post up that decries how some seek to break the practical from the theological in sermons. He tells the story of a preacher who …
Practical or Doctrinal Sermons? Read More
OK, this is one of those questions where our practice is often at odds with what we say we do. What am I talking about? The big question, WHAT COMES …
You Got A Theme – How Do You Get A Sermon? Read More
On the Biblical Preaching blog, the author is currently in a series about the different listeners in our sermons. Who is listening? There is the community of faith, not yet …
Preaching To Those Who Hear Read More
Ok. You have less than a day. You have waited until it is very late. At this point you have a few options and none of them are good.
Warren Stewart, in Interpreting God’s Word in Black Preaching, writes: He or she who interprets and preaches the Word must identify with the Word in such a way that the …
Is Your Preaching One Sided? Read More
One of our readers, C. Johnson, wrote a perceptive comment which reads in part:
To a large degree, what is said, heard and done (in the pulpit) is all prepackaged. Even the words that are used, are for the most part scripted long before a text is exegeted and expounded.
and further
Too many who populate pulpits reduce the Bible to the script of the people we serve and as a result, lead them into both mediocrity and blindness.
H. Beecher Hicks in the second chapter of his book Preaching Through a Storm has a sermon entitled How to Silence a Preacher; or, Shut Your Mouth!. Rev. Hicks preached …
Is Your Mouth Open? Preachers and Proclamation Read More
Lowell Erdahl, in the book Best Advice for Preaching, quotes someone who said: “There are two kinds of preachers–those who have to say something and those who have something to …
Something to Say or Say Anything Read More
I will never forget my first homiletic class where the instructor told us to “analyze a sermon.” I had no idea where to begin and the whole idea seemed difficult. …
How To Analyze A Sermon Read More
Many preachers have preached sermons that were not prepared from making use of sermon planning. Often the sermon lands us in Flunkersville and we resolve never to be in this …
Five Benefits of Sermon Planning Read More
One preacher asked me if he should accept last minute invitations to preach. As an associate minister in a church where other preaching associates received most of the preaching opportunities, this preacher wondered about accepting such invitations.
The Importance of Staying Ready Read More
Some of us are guilty of using the text. We have the idea we want, we find the text that appears to say what we want it to say. And …
Let the Bible Lead Read MoreThere are multitudes of sermon outline sites. Some of them require you to pay for the outline, others are membership sites that give you access to thousands of outlines, and still others are completely free.