Ending the Sermon Series

How should you end a sermon series? That is the question that the Biblical Preaching blog deals with in its latest post. Pastor Mead provides three possibilities:

  1. Summarize the “end matter” in the last sermon.
  2. Dedicate a full sermon to the “end matter”
  3. Review the whole series in the final sermon.

Now Mead is explicitly speaking of preaching through an expository series based on a book of the Bible, but it can be helpful in any sermon series.

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Sermon As Portrayal of Biblical Character

As we continue looking at Preaching Patterns from Ronald Allen we come to Preaching a Sermon on a Biblical Character. In this method the preacher looks for information on one character of the Bible throughout the Bible as well as in history and other Biblical Reference Materials. Then the preacher tells constructs the story of the Biblical character from all that material.

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