Here are some posts and podcasts on preaching and biblical exegesis that I noticed. (To receive Preaching Post Roundup as a weekly email, please subscribe.)
- How to Write a Sermon in 9 Steps from Faithlife Staff (Word by Word – Logos Blog) – sermon preparation in nine steps, with suggestions for using Logos Bible software (You can find sermon preparation in seven steps here.)
- Dependence Upon the Holy Spirit with Brian Brodersen from Brian Brodersen and Mike Neglia (Expositors Collective) – as preachers we need to depend on the Holy Spirit throughout the process of sermon preparation and delivery (See also the next post.)
- Unction and Preaching from Wes Bredenhof (Wes Bredenhof) – preachers should pray for the Holy Spirit to work through them, while recognizing that faithfulness and clarity are what count
- How Important Is Preaching in a Church Plant? from Tony Merida (Sola Ecclesia) – through preaching a church planter is both making disciples and leading a newly formed congregation
- How Long Should Sermons Be? from Michael Bird (A Word from Bird) – some additional thoughts on the recent Australian discussion regarding sermon length
- What’s in a Name? from Jeffery Arthurs (Preaching Points) – we should reflect on what we call our people from the pulpit
- The Necessity of Biblical Languages in Ministerial Training from Robert L. Plummer (Southern Equip) – five reasons that biblical languages should be part of a seminary curriculum and four challenges in teaching these languages
- All about Hermeneutics: A Guide to Interpreting God’s Word Faithfully from Tobin Perry (Word by Word – Logos Blog) – what hermeneutics is; why it is important; hermeneutics across church history; five key components; resources; interpreting biblical genres (See also Biblical Interpretation and Interpreting the Genres of the Bible.)
- Articles on the Psalms from the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology:
- Editorial: Reflections on Reading the Psalter from Stephen J. Wellum (Southern Equip) – individual psalms should be read in the context of the Psalter as a whole and of biblical history
- Did the New Testament Authors Read the Psalter as a Book? from James M. Hamilton, Jr. (Southern Equip) – evidence that the New Testament authors read the Psalms in sequence as a unified book
- Hearing the Canonical Voice of the Psalter: An Exegetical Overview from Bradley L. Baugham (Southern Equip) – the “five-movement symphony” of the Psalter
- Reading the Psalms with the Church: A Critical Evaluation of Prosopological Exegesis in Light of Church History from David Schrock (Southern Equip) -a critique of the prosopological exegesis of the Psalms (which claims that we can overhear conversations between Persons of the Trinity in the Psalms)
- “David” as the Speaker of Psalms 105-106 from Adam D. Hensley (Southern Equip) – an argument that the figure of “David” speaks in Psalms 105-106
- Reading Psalms 2 and 110 with the Grain of Scripture: A Proposal for Reading the Psalter Canonically from David Schrock (Southern Equip) – there is “a literary and covenantal connection between Psalm 2 and Psalm 110”
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