I’ve recently begun a new sermon series from the Psalms leading up to Easter. I had to collect some resources for this series, and thought I’d share with you some that have already been beneficial to me. I’m sure you may have some of your own that you would like to suggest. Psalms from the …
“My colleague, Stanley Hauerwas, was recently asked about the moral confusion of contemporary clergy. Hauerwas said something to the effect that, ‘You have these people who get out of seminary thinking that their job is to ‘help people.’ That’s where the adultery begins.’ What? ‘So you have these clergy,’ he continued, ‘ who have no …
“Informed imitation, that’s our goal. We don’t listen to the preaching of others so that we can be slavish imitators. We listen as fellow artists, as those who have learned enough about preaching to know competence when we hear it, to respect the ways in which more experienced practitioners of our craft can teach us. …
Hugh Latimer was a popular preacher of the English Reformation known for his “homely, rustic touch…he spoke from the heart and his words went…to the heart.” His best known sermon is his “The Sermon of the Plough.” Read a couple of excerpts below. And now I would ask you a strange question; who is the …
I am currently preaching on the gospel through the book of Romans. For those who might be interested, here is a list of very helpful commentaries I am using. I’ve listed them in order of helpfulness to me. You may be interested to know that the first two commentaries listed are Carson’s #1 and #2 …
In one of his recent books, William Willimon, offers some sound counsel concerning preaching with the aid of a manuscript in our current culture. The point is this I believe: don’t be bound to your manuscript, be bound and determined to communicate God’s Word clearly! Here is how Willimon describes the task for us preachers: …
“Use prayer as a boring rod, and wells of living water will leap up from the bowels of the Word….Prayer will singularly assist you in the delivery of your sermon; in fact, nothing can so gloriously fit you to preach as descending flesh from the mount of communion with God to speak with men. None …
“You and I, as preachers, are dealers in words. Words are all that we have to do any important work. Like some of the psalms of lament, I want both to thank God for speech and to blame God for speech being so difficult. And I want to fall in love with language, over and …
Pastors as you prepare and study to deliver God’s Word to God’s people this coming Lord’s Day, ponder the words below from Dietrich Bonhoeffer concerning preaching. “A truly evangelical sermon must be like offering a child a fine red apple or offering a thirsty man a cool glass of water, and then saying, Do you …
In the final analysis, the ultimate authority for preaching is the authority of the Bible as the Word of God. Without this authority, the preacher stands naked and silent before the congregation and the watching world. If the Bible is not the Word of God, the preacher is involved in an act of self-delusion or …