Here are some posts on preaching and exegesis that I noticed recently. (To receive Preaching Post Roundup as a weekly email, please subscribe.)
- Give People a Living Christ from Matt Hodges (Acts 29) – we are called “to introduce our people to the One who can walk with them into their week”
- Don’t Write Sermons for Your Week from Al Gooderham (Al Gooderham) – write sermons for the week your congregation is facing, not the week you are facing
- Pastor, Don’t Avoid Uncomfortable Topics from Brett McCracken (For the Church) – our people want the truth, even if it is hard to hear
- Five Words to Improve Every Sermon from Jason K. Allen (For the Church) – five words to improve sermons are: Bible, look, repent, you, and Jesus
- Spurgeon’s Quest for Clarity: Five Ways to Grow In Your Preaching from Matthew Perry (For the Church) – know your people; know your calling; arrange your material clearly; speak plainly; rely on the Spirit for revival
- Preaching after a Rough Week from Quentin Self (Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership) – advice on preparing and delivering a quality sermon when you have had a rough week
- Point-to-Point Application from Chip Thornton (G3) – Thornton argues that we should “allow the biblical text to drive the application”
- The Power of the Pregnant Pause from Bruce Ballast (Preaching Acts) – a pause can be a powerful means of gaining the congregation’s attention
- Expository Preaching from David Strain and Carl Trueman (Mortification of Spin) – Strain, the author of Expository Preaching, discusses what expositional preaching is
- Sermon-Based Small Groups – Alan Stoddard from Alan Stoddard and Mike Neglia (Expositors’ Collective) – reflections on increasing the impact of our sermons through small group discussion; learning from Haddon Robinson
- Why You Should Not Skip the Genealogy in Preaching from Josh Buice (G3) – preaching the genealogy (e.g., in Luke 3) “will bolster the church’s confidence in the totality of Scripture”
- FTC Preaching Guide: 1 Corinthians from Tyler Sykora (For the Church) – preaching outlines, key themes, problem passages, commentaries and resources, preaching Christ, reasons to preach the book
- Episode #49: Pastors and Preaching through Colossians (with Scott Pace) from Scott Pace, Ronjour Locke and Brandon Ward (Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership) – a discussion of the message of Colossians for today and its practicality; how to preach through the book
- [For those who don’t have access to Bible commentaries and other Bible study tools, remember that you can borrow commentaries and tools online. Many of these resources are “critical”, but some are evangelical. Here are some lists: Bible Commentaries to Borrow; Bible Study Tools to Borrow]
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