Peter Adam provides what is titled Advice To A Young Preacher, but his points are worth revisiting at any age or stage in preaching experience. This one is challenging when producing sermons in a most individualistic age and culture: Recognize that most of the Bible is actually addressed to God’s people, not to individuals. Even …
Peter Adam provides a succinct list of fourteen questions that need to be addressed by preachers before they deliver their sermon. Here are numbers 6 to 11: 6. Have I reflected on and applied the passage and the sermon to myself, and responded with repentance, faith, and obedience? 7. Have I prayed for the people …
Charlie Skrine, talks about preparing a short series of sermons on the biblical book of Micah. He explains some key themes and how he would seek to develop and apply them over the course of the series. From St. Helen’s Bishopsgate’s Preaching Matters.
Darryl Dash writes the two questions that have to be answered in sermon preparation: What’s the central idea? and What are the sticking points? The first question identifies what the Scripture is saying to the congregation. The second anticipates how different congregations may have varied reactions to that message. The preacher has to have a …
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