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.)
- Preach the Sermons That Algorithms Don’t Reward from Benjamin Vrbicek (GC Discipleship) – as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 2:12-17, we are not to peddle the Word, but rather “stay focused on Jesus and to preach faithful, steady, nuanced truth” (8 min)
- Building a Sermon with Biblical Theology from Clayton Todd (For the Church) – “we must be miners—excavating the text, its themes, constructions, placement, wording, and literary devices—so that when Sunday comes, we enter the pulpit confident not in ourselves, but in the unfolding wisdom of God” (5 min)
- Preach Like a Poet from Stephen Witmer (Desiring God) – “poet-like preachers” cherish words, deploy metaphors, and speak from imagination to heart; suggestions for preaching like poets (8 min)
- Preaching with Distractions from Hershael York (Preaching Magazine) – three things we can do that will help us deal with distractions that occur during preaching (4 min)
- Episode 55: Interview – Jordan Scheetz, Part 1: What to Look For (Biblical Preaching Podcast) from Mike Chalmers, Peter Mead, and Jordan Scheetz (Cor Deo) – marks of good preaching (Psalm 1:1-3 preaching); the danger of overly rhetorical preaching that manipulates; the misuse of original languages; remembering for whom we preach; speaking from the heart ( (26 min)
- “On Preaching” | On Preaching with Frank E. Ray Sr. from Frank Ray and H. B. Charles Jr. (Cutting It Straight) – formative influences on Ray; maintaining a strong home ministry; developing recall; finding our own voice; becoming an expository preacher; writing sermons; sermon preparation; younger preachers (37 min)
- The Pastor as Gardener: Seasons, Soil, and Sermon Prep with Matthew Erickson from Matthew Erickson and Mike Neglia (Expositors Collective) – team exegesis; sermon prep practices; Erickson’s book: The Pastor as Gardener: A Renewed Vision for Ministry; seasons of ministry; metaphors for ministry; letting the text live in us; sermons and spiritual formation (49 min)
- Is Ecclesiastes Messianic? Preaching Christ from the Vantage of Vanity from Jonathan Akin (Word by Word – Logos Blog) – Ecclesiastes’s “purposeful pessimism”; how Ecclesiastes cries out for Christ; preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes (13 min)
- “Bible Talk” | Isaiah 23: On Bitcoin’s Nadir and the Inevitable Futility of Living for Money (Ep. 170) from Alex Duke, Sam Emadi, and Jim Hamilton (9 Marks) – biblical theological insights on Isaiah 23 (32 min)
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