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.)
- The Cost of Courageous Preaching from Greg Morse (Desiring God) – like Jeremiah and Timothy, we are called to preach the word with Spirit-inspired courage (6 min)
- 4 Keys to Prepare Your Soul to Preach from John E. Johnson (Preaching Today) – penetrating preaching begins with our own souls, as we “stand in the Lord’s council” and plumb the depths of our text until a homiletical outline emerges (6 min)
- Episode 26: Interview – Marcus Honeysett, Part 2: True Transformation (Biblical Preaching Podcast) from Mike Chalmers, Peter Mead, and Marcus Honeysett (Cor Deo) – the elements of preaching; preaching as an exercise in worship to produce worship; aiming for heart transformation rather than “Christianized behaviors” (26 min)
- Considering a Preacher’s Tone and Posture: Look Who’s Talking, Where, to Whom from Brent Horan (The Aquila Report) – “in our preaching we need to think of how the who, the where and the to whom informs the how” (12 min)
- Considering the Preacher’s Tone and Posture: What Is Christ Talking About in Your Sermon? from Brent Horan (The Aquila Report) – why we are not aware of our manner; the sermon as an encounter with Christ; in our tone and manner, we should channel the heart and disposition of Christ (13 min)
- What’s Going on in Your Pastor’s Mind from Tim Challies (Challies) – “just as we pray for undistracted minds for those who listen, we would do well to pray for undistracted minds for those who preach” (6 min)
- John MacArthur’s Expository Preaching from Daniel K. Williams (Anxious Bench), also here – an acknowledgement of the power of expository preaching by a critic of MacArthur (8 min)
- Review: Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers By T. David Gordon (Part 1) and (Part 2) from R. Scott Clark (The Heidelblog) – a book review of Gordon’s book, Why Johnny Can’t Preach (10 min)
- Responsible Use of AI in Bible Study | Mark Barnes from Kirk E. Miller and Mark Barnes (Word by Word – Logos Blog) – what AI is; why we need wisdom and humility in using it; potential risks of using AI; minimizing these risks and respecting the sacredness of preaching; saving time in Bible study with AI (blog: 9 min; video: 47 min)
- Spiritual Readings, Historic Senses, Lectionaries and Four Mountains from Michael Niebauer and Mike Neglia (Expositors Collective) – the value and practice of lectionary preaching; a discussion of Niebauer’s book, Four Mountains: Encountering God in the Bible from Eden to Zion ; following the early Christians in seeing Christ in the Old Testament; preaching to the elderly (64 min)
- On Interpretive Maximalism and Minimalism from Stephen Kneale (Building Jerusalem) – “if our typology and ‘maximal reading’ isn’t textually bound and contextually driven, it isn’t the bible we are reading but our own subjective allegorical whatevers” (13 min)
- Podcast: How the Extraordinary Church in Acts Applies to Ordinary Believers Today (Iain Duguid) from Matt Tully and Iain Duguid (Crossway) – insights on how to apply the narratives of the first chapters in Acts to our hearers today (40 min)
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