Preaching Post Roundup (June 12, 2025)

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.)

• Episode 21: Interview – Andy Paterson. The Word Does the Work (The Biblical Preaching Podcast) from Andy Paterson, Peter Mead, and Mike Chalmers (The Biblical Preaching Podcast) – reflections on the place of preaching in ministry; the preacher as matchmaker between the congregation and Jesus; how preaching is central to pastoral ministry (34 min)
• Episode 319: What Congregations Don’t Know About Preaching from Jared C. Wilson and Ross Ferguson (For the Church) – congregations don’t know how physically, emotionally, and spiritually draining preaching is, how much preachers see, and how thrilling and worthwhile preaching is (39 min)
• Pray, Study, Write: Ed Compean on Preparing a Sermon from Start to Finish from Ed Compean and Mike Neglia (Expositors Collective) – a definition of expository preaching; three goals of preaching; five steps of sermon preparation: prayer, Bible study, building the sermon, hearing from others, sermon conclusion; evaluation questions (39 min)
• “Preachers’ Talk” – On Simplicity (Ep. 91) from K. Edward Copeland, Jeremy Meeks, and Kevin Walker (9 Marks) – what simplicity in preaching is; what undermines simplicity in preaching; why simplicity is beneficial; how to work on simplicity (26 min)
• Beware of Preaching a Christian Failure Narrative from Rod Casey (Preaching Today) – “our sermons ought to reflect a more accurate, hope-filled, Christianly communication” (9 min)
• Preaching after the Poet from Sean Palmer (Preaching Today) – Walter Brueggemann “insisted … that real preaching is an act of poetry—dangerous, disruptive, and drenched in God’s imagination” (6 min)
• 5 Ways To Develop a Preaching Calendar from Will Basham (Lifeway Research) – five things to consider as we plan our preaching (6 min)
• You Need Context When Reading the Bible from Jon Nielson (Crossway) – we need to study the historical, literary, and canonical context to interpret and apply a biblical text correctly (6 min)