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 …
Should every sermon end with Christ? Peter Adam, Andrew Reid and Mike Raiter discuss.
Michael Duduit writes about preaching that is not an exegetical report or Bible study, but which takes the results of sound exegesis and builds a presentation that enables people to understand the application of a biblical text to their lives. An excerpt: Application in preaching takes the life principle found in the biblical text and …
In this year of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, much will be written about the theological emphases of that era in church history. Timothy George writes about the way in which reformation theology transformed worship and the place and function of the sermon. From his article, two ways in which preaching was transformed by …
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