Preaching Post Roundup (October 9, 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.)

• A Brief Theology of Preaching from W. Tyler Sykora (For the Church) – what preaching is; whom it is for; how it differs from teaching; why expository preaching is preferred (6 min)
• Preserving the Legacy of the Puritans from John MacArthur (The Master’s Seminary Blog) – the strengths of Puritan preaching; preserving their legacy through expository preaching (5 min)
• Preaching for Change and Obedience – Eric Lockheart from Eric Lockheart (Expositors Collective) – expository preaching involves: explaining and illustrating what the Bible says, being Christ-centered, seeking God’s glory, not our own, applying Scripture both to ourselves and to our listeners (38 min)
• “On Preaching” | Preparing to Preach Through a Book from H. B. Charles, Jr. (Cutting It Straight) – thirteen pieces of advice on preparing to preach through a book of the Bible (31 min) 
• Preachers: Here’s a One-Hour Change That Will Improve Your Sermons (and Lower Your Stress) from Rick Reed (Rick and Linda Reed) – “two Thursdays (or eleven days) before you are scheduled to preach a sermon, spend one hour doing exegetical digging in the passage” (1 min)
• The Preaching Plot (Preaching Guru) – sermons follow the “plot” of setting, tension, climax, and resolution (3 min)
• “On Preaching” | Formal and Ongoing Preparation from H. B. Charles, Jr. (Cutting It Straight) – formal preparation in seminary; ongoing preparation through reading, attending conferences, mentoring, feedback; sermon preparation (26 min)
• Episode 35: Bad Preaching (The Biblical Preaching Podcast) from Mike Chalmers and Peter Mead (Cor Deo) – the need to evaluate with humility; good preaching must be biblical, clear, relevant in content and style, engaging; how to respond to bad preaching (34 min)
• “Bible Talk” – Isaiah 6: On Isaiah’s Burning Bush Moment and Difficult Job Description (Ep. 157) from Alex Duke, Sam Emadi, and Jim Hamilton (9 Marks) – biblical theological insights on Isaiah 6 (34 min)