Here are some posts on preaching and exegesis that I noticed recently. (To receive Preaching Post Roundup as a weekly email, please subscribe.)
- Don’t Assume Anything in the Pulpit from H. B. Charles, Jr. (For the Church) – don’t assume people know the passage, understand the passage or believe the passage
- How to Prepare a Sermon When You Are a Bivocational Pastor from Scott Slayton (One Degree to Another) – preach through books of the Bible, start early in the week, utilize the “gaps” in your day
- On Plagiarism and Preachers: Why Plagiarizing Sermons Is Popular But Biblically Indefensible from David S. Schrock (Via Emmaus) – plagiarism invites teaching without knowledge, promotes impersonal communication, threatens the pastoral office, changes the nature of the pastoral ministry, entices false shepherds and rewards laziness, and dishonors the Word
- A Possible Solution to Plagiarizing Preachers: In Case of Emergency, Break Glass from R. Scott Clark (Heidelblog) – if in an emergency a pastor is unable to prepare his own sermon, he or an elder could read someone else’s written sermon (with acknowledgement).
- Doddridge on Fake Preaching from Chris Gordon (Abounding Grace Radio) – h/t The Heidelblog – the dangers of “theatrical” preaching: being an artificial reproducer of another person’s ministry
- Sometimes You Need Less Exegesis and More Biblical and Systematic Theology from Randal Pelton (Pelton on Preaching) – when preaching the imprecatory psalms, you need to provide a theological explanation
- Pastoral Preaching – Dr. Phil Newton from Dr. Phil Newton and Mike Neglia (Expositors Collective) – the value of preaching through books of the Bible; the importance of “feeling” the text and working through texts with the specific pastoral issues in mind
- Exodus 32–33: On Worshiping YHWH in a Carnival Mirror (Bible Talk, Ep. 33) from Alex Duke, Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi (9 Marks) – biblical theological insights on these chapters
- [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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