Sermon Development
Beyond Illustrations
Most preachers have learned the lesson well: showing is crucial to telling. We are not the first [...]
Sermon Development
Sermon Development
Keeping the Word Central
A friend of mine often jokes that he likes to read the biblical text because it sheds [...]
Sermon Development
Yearning for a Word
Reading sermons has never been very inspiring to me, and many of my pastoral colleagues agree. So [...]
Sermon Development
Writing for the Ear, Part 3
Preachers are usually so close to the sermon that they do not notice gaps in [...]
Sermon Development
Writing for the Ear, Part 2
Once you have a sermon draft, you can begin to tweak various elements. It is [...]
Sermon Development
Writing for the Ear, Part 1
Preaching is an oral/aural event. And yet, preachers often prepare sermons as they would write [...]
Sermon Development
Building Sermons that Build the Church Part 2
Week after week, the preacher has the privilege of shaping [...]
Sermon Development
Building Sermons that Build the Church Part 1
“For the first five years of ministry, it felt like [...]
Sermon Development
Using Commentaries Effectively and Faithfully
Commentaries play an important role in the preacher’s exegetical work. [...]
Sermon Development
Sermons Form around Verbal Landmarks: Ideas and Images Created by Our Words
In this essay, I want [...]
