Jay Adams can sound like a curmudgeon, but I think this is helpful. Though composed with non-manuscript delivery in mind, these points stand for anyone in their preparation for preaching. Focus your thinking in preparation on God, on the message, and on the congregation—not on the sermon. Ask continually “how can I best bring this …
Kevin DeYoung identifies these five points as being indicative of feedback on his preaching. They strike me as being generally true, and the first three are part of my goals for preaching after leave. Your introductions are too long. Don’t be afraid to dive right into the text. Your sermons could be five minutes shorter …
This month’s Preaching Matters video features William Taylor speaking about remedies for poor preaching. The poorest preaching is that which purports to be biblical but instead is really our own thoughts draped over a biblical text. It is doubly poor because it does not tell people the author’s purpose in writing the text, and then …
Paul Levy writes at Reformation 21 about why it’s a good idea to move forward and fill up the vacant seats at the front of the church. In doing so he makes the following observation about preaching as a two-way communication: Somebody recently defined preaching to me as a sustained monologue to a group of …
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