Philosophy of Preaching
The One Mode of Preaching God Promises to Bless
It must never be forgotten, that there is but one mode of preaching that God has promised to bless: "when all our sermons . . . are made to set forth and magnify Christ the...
My Philosophy of Preaching
Have you ever taken the time to write down your personal philosophy of preaching? It's an extremely revealing and clarifying exercise. Here's what I did. I sat down and...
Get Yourself out of the Interpretation and into the Proclamation
Preaching magazine once interviewed John MacArthur and asked him the following question: You've commented that one of the things you have to work at so hard is to get your...
Forming and Being Formed
When an expositor studies his Bible, the Holy Spirit probes the preacher's life. As a man prepares sermons, God prepares the man. As the expositor masters a passage, he will...
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
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...
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,...
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...
Practice of Preaching
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