Sermon Development
Keeping the Word Central
A friend of mine often jokes that he likes to read the biblical text because it sheds [...]
A friend of mine often jokes that he likes to read the biblical text because it sheds [...]
Reading sermons has never been very inspiring to me, and many of my pastoral colleagues agree. So [...]
Preachers are usually so close to the sermon that they do not notice gaps in [...]
Once you have a sermon draft, you can begin to tweak various elements. It is [...]
Preaching is an oral/aural event. And yet, preachers often prepare sermons as they would write [...]
Week after week, the preacher has the privilege of shaping [...]
“For the first five years of ministry, it felt like [...]
Commentaries play an important role in the preacher’s exegetical work. [...]
In this essay, I want [...]
The Rule of Three is a way of organizing written and spoken language by grouping items into [...]