There is a need for some types of repitition in preaching. Just because you’ve said it once doesn’t mean everyone’s heard and understood. But this doesn’t mean you simply arrive at the same point mechanically in the sermon every week. It’s also why meeting together during the week and talking about the sermon can help …
Some thoughts from Jason Allen about expository preaching. If you’re at church tomorrow listen for the message of God’s word, not some words that use God’s word to impart a speaker’s message. … “preaching the word” is marked by these three essentials: 1. The necessity of accurately interpreting the text in its immediate, and broader, …
Borrowing an analogy from baseball, Daniel Darling writes about ordinary preachers and their week-to-week preaching ministry. Having an expectation that the exceptional should be the ordinary experience creates a type of Christian life that is neither sustainable or recognisable from a biblical or historic framework. From Darling: This is not an excuse for mediocrity. It’s …
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 …
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