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...
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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...
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount Underscores the Importance of Application
What is your view of the significance of application in preaching? If you were forced to put a price tag on "application," what value would you assign it? Oddly enough,...
What Is the Foundation of an Expository Sermon?
In a recent Preaching Points podcast Jeffrey Arthurs argues that the exegetical idea is the foundation of an expository sermon. What is the exegetical idea? It is...
Is It Really About Him, or Is It Mostly About Me?
In a chapter entitled "Less Joe, More Jesus," Joe Stowell reminds us that it's easy to become preoccupied with ourselves as preachers. Preaching has a way of sucking us down...
The Divinely-Defined Content of Divinely-Approved Preaching
In one of the classic New Testament texts on preaching, Paul commands Timothy to "preach the word." It's easy to gloss over familiar, oft-quoted texts like this without...