Preaching Post Roundup (November 5, 2020)

Here are some posts on preaching and exegesis that I noticed recently. (To receive Preaching Post Roundup as a weekly email, please subscribe.)

• Prayer and Preaching: Adopting the Attitude of Paul from Charles R. Swindoll (The Pastor’s Blog) – Paul’s dependence on the Spirit is worthy of imitation
• Pastor, Plagiarism Is More Than Theft from Hayden Hefner (The Gospel Coalition) – instead of stealing, do the work to understand and apply the text
• Improving in Preaching from Nick Batzig (Feeding on Christ) – ten practical steps for evaluating and improving your preaching
• Preaching Is Not Acting – Sébastien Frappier from Mike Neglia and Sébastien Frappier (Expositors Collective) – the need to be authentic and broken before the Lord as we preach; ways to keep our preaching fresh
• The Art of Biblical Passion in the Pulpit from Shawn Nichols (Preaching Source) – don’t impose your emotions on the text, depend on the Holy Spirit, rest in your own skin, prepare your homiletic emotion
• Connecting Pulpit and Pew – You Need to Read from Randal Pelton (Pelton on Preaching) – Bellinger’s Connecting Pulpit and Pew is helpful for thinking about audience analysis
• Balthasar Hubmaier and Reformation Preaching from Mac Brunson (Preaching Source) – Hubmaier was strongly scriptural, eminently evangelical, thoroughly textual
• The Hidden Discipline of John Stott from Mark Meynell (The Gospel Coalition) – “Only through labored effort did his apparently effortless clarity result.”
• “Preaching and Preachers” Episode 190: Preaching the Book of Daniel from Paul Tanner and Jason Allen (Jason K. Allen) – key doctrines in Daniel; ways to preach Christ
• Reading James: The Challenge from Tommy Keene (Sign and Shadow) – seeing that James is more about behavior and less about the gospel actually helps us understand James (one of a series of posts)
• The Privilege of Preaching God’s Immutability from Michael Abraham (For the Church) – the doctrine of God’s immutability in James is a warning to the tempted and a comfort to the doubting