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.)
- Sermons Are Delivered, Not Given (Preaching Guru) – sermons are delivered, not given because of the source of the message, the role of the Holy Spirit, and the purpose of the sermon
- Setting Your Heart to Study God’s Word with Mike Neglia from Mike Neglia (Expositors Collective) – steps to follow in interpreting and applying God’s word; benefits and challenges of expository teaching and preaching; the “big idea”; doing justice to “there and then” and “here and now”; helpful books on preaching; Christ-centered preaching
- Should Pastors Preach Topical Sermons? from J. V. Fesko (Beautiful Christian Life) – why, in most of our preaching, we should systematically work through books of the Bible
- Preach to the People in Here, Not Those Out There from Stephen Kneale (Building Jerusalem) – the focus of our preaching must be on the audience before us, not on those who are not present
- Struggling to Make Your Sermons Evangelistic? You’re Not Alone from Alistair Begg (Truth for Life) – how to begin evangelistic preaching; a model of evangelistic preaching (the parable of the prodigal son)
- Episode 271: Best Books for Pastors from Jared C. Wilson and Ross Ferguson (For the Church) – Bible commentary recommendations; helpful books on preaching and pastoral ministry
- 5 Poor Ways to Approach the Old Testament from Vern S. Poythress (Crossway) – the five poor ways are: use just the New Testament, use the Old Testament for moral examples, good and bad, use it simply as a historical record, use it just for what it teaches about God, use it to find strange secrets
- Nancy Guthrie on the Salvation Purposes of God in Acts (Season 2, Episode 1) and Patrick Schreiner on the Theology of the Book of Acts (Season 2, Episode 2) from Nancy Guthrie and Patrick Schreiner (Crossway) – we need to see how the stories in Acts “fit into the larger story of the way God is working out his salvation purposes in the world”; the central themes of Acts; parallels between Sinai and Pentecost; the word as a “divine actor” in Acts; Acts and the restoration of the kingdom
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