Kevin DeYoung features in this month’s Preaching Matters video from St Helen’s Bishopsgate UK’s blog. DeYoung talks about both the benefits and the drawbacks of the method, helpfully pointing out that verse by verse exposition is actually topical preaching. He indicates where topical series have a place as well. The closing material is especially helpful, …

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Bryan Chapell expands on various sermons which apply his Christ-Centered Preaching motif in his new book Christ-Centered Sermons. The fundamental principle: We should always observe biblical texts through spectacles containing the lenses of these two questions: How is the Holy Spirit revealing in this text the nature of God that provides redemption? And how is …

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Derived by a series of posts published at the Gospel Coalition on the titular theme, Christ-Centered Preaching And Teaching has chapters by Daniel Block, David Murray, Walt Kaiser and Bryan Chapell, with supplemental material provided by Ed Stetzer who has edited the publication. Well worth a look. And it’s free.

While known primarily for his background in counselling, Jay Adams is a great teacher of preaching. The Institute for Nouthetic Studies is posting articles by Adams on preaching each Friday. They will be refreshing for experienced preachers or instructive for novices. Preaching With Purpose was the initial text from which I learned to preach. This …

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