Preaching Post Roundup (March 23, 2023)

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.)

• Tony Merida on the Future of Preaching from Tony Merida (Acts 29) – why preaching has a future; faithful and effective preaching is biblical, contextual, and personal
• Faithful Preaching In A Fashionable World from Carl R. Trueman (Modern Reformation) – the preacher’s task is not to be popular, but to preach the whole counsel of God; Christians must remember what the church is
• On Being the Main Character in Your Own Sermon from Tim Challies (Challies) – on battling the temptation to glorify ourselves instead of Christ
• You Have Permission To Be Yourself with Chris Brown from Chris Brown and Mike Neglia (Expositors Collective) – storytelling in preaching; the importance of being yourself; the danger of relying on our giftedness; finding your voice
• Three Practices for Promoting the Power of Palm Sunday from Matthew D. Kim (Preaching Today) – “explain, prove, and apply the power of Palm Sunday”
• 2 Common Mistakes in Interpreting Scripture from Jonathan T. Pennington (Crossway) – in interpreting Scripture, avoid both language errors and reasoning errors
• Pineapples and Biblical Interpretation — What’s the Connection? from Daniel Rowlands (Beautiful Christian Life) – in determining the meaning of biblical words, beware of the “root fallacy”
• A Quick Look at Kostenberger & Goswell’s “Biblical Theology” from Shane Lems (The Reformed Reader) – a short review of Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Gregory Goswell
• “Literal” Bible Translations: Not As Literal As We Might Think from Shane Lems (The Reformed Reader) – thoughts on the meaning of “literal” based on One Bible, Many Versions: Are All Translations Created Equal?  by Dave Brunn
• Judges 13-14: On the Birth and Betrothal of Israel’s Surprising, Set-Apart, and Sinful Savior (Bible Talk, Ep. 78) from Alex Duke, Sam Emadi, and Jim Hamilton (9 Marks) – biblical theological insights on these chapters