Keeping the main passage central to the sermon, not stringing Bible verses together. From Nicholas McDonald at Scribble Preach: Sermons should not feel like channel flipping. One text here, one text there, one text over there. Citing 20 verses in a sermon does not an expositional sermon make. Just the opposite. If it’s narrative, it …
In Rhett Dodson’s chapter of Unashamed Workmen he outlines the step in sermon preparation that asks the question ‘Where Is Jesus?’ At times we can become so caught up in mining the details that we can forget what we’re looking for! As we dig into Scripture, we will discover many beautiful gems that we will …
Peter Adam continues a series of articles, this time identifying preaching as being the natural place where the Bible is corporately opened and applied to God’s people. If God speaks to his people as a group, why attempt to individualise the focus of applications? It’s not so much that there’s something in the text for …
If you’re attending worship with other Christians tomorrow and hearing a sermon, may it have this character: Preachers of the Word labor under three distinct requirements. First, they are to be faithful (pistoi). They are called to believe, and they are called only to believe. They are not called to know, or to be clever, …
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