Enjoy these preaching-related links and summaries from the past week. Especially note Peter Mead's helpful 3-part series on explanation in preaching. 9 Teaching Methods of...
Kerry McGonigal
Show Your Support! Your Main Points Need It.
How often do we simply assert our main point in a sermon, read a couple of supporting verses with little to no comment, and then move on to illustrate or apply the concept?...
Are My Motives as Christ-Centered as My Message?
Obviously as a preacher of the gospel I am concerned about the what of preaching--my message. But I must not stop there. I cannot content myself with simply asking "What am...
A Prayer for Preachers
My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim, To spread through all the earth abroad The honors of Thy name. - Charles Wesley
Reviewing the Main Points 06.07.13
The web was alive with preaching resources this past week, especially with discussions related to Christ-centered preaching. Enjoy! Christ-Centered Preaching (Part 1): The...
Why Expository Preaching Must Be at the Center of Church Life
http://vimeo.com/67330361 In this video interview with David Platt, Mark Dever argues that if you're going to have a healthy church you begin by letting it be calibrated by...
Christ-Centered Homiletics or Human Author-Centered Hermeneutics?
I don't get excited about reading too many dissertations, but here's one I hope to tackle soon. In 2011 Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,...
Reviewing the Main Points 05.31.13
Looking for something to read this weekend related to preaching? Here are some links and "main points" collected from recent blog posts and other online resources. When Your...
One-Note, One-Nail Preaching
Is there a temptation in preaching to become a one-note messenger? To be so singularly focused on a particular issue or doctrine that every sermon ends up sounding the same...
What Kind of Shape Is Your Sermon In?
There are a lot of things to think about when preparing a message. But how many of us think about how we think? And let me go one step further--how many of us think about...