There is usually a lot of preparation taking place on Saturday nights for sermons being preached on Sunday. If you’re a Christian, even if you’re not going to preach, there’s sermon preparation that you can be doing as well. From Ryan McGraw at Reformation21: We should pray for preachers in light of the biblical definitions …
People have asked me from time to time what I thought of the sermon that was given during the recent royal wedding. I have a few observations. One train of evangelical thought is that the preacher gave an introduction to the Gospel, laying down a number of threads that could later be drawn together in …
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 …
Mike Raiter lists seven things he wishes people understood about illustrations. Number 2 is I wish preachers knew that illustrations are primarily didactic. Raiter explains: The most important purpose of the illustration is to aid understanding. Someone has said, “if you can’t illustrate it, you don’t understand it”. If you don’t illustrate it, then the …
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