Seven Fundamentals of Biblical Preaching
This article offers seven fundamentals to preaching faithfully, including the following: preach expositional sermons, preach the whole counsel of God, preach to yourself, and preach Christ.
Profiting from Preaching
The Authority of the Preaching
Three Guiding Principles for Preaching the Gospel in the Old Testament
This article calls pastors to preach Christ from the Old Testament. It provides three fundamental truths for OT preaching, followed by three related guiding principles for OT preaching.
Four Keys to Preaching More Engaging Sermons
This article considers the question regarding the length of a sermon by emphasizing the preparedness of the preacher. His sermon must be full of biblical substance, he must consider how to adorn the gospel with thought-provoking delivery, he must weave application into explanation, and develop audience awareness.
We Need Fools in the Pulpit: The Danger of Sophisticated Ministry
This article explains that preaching ought be recognized less as sophisticated and more as cross-centred, after the example and teaching of Christ and his apostles.
What Is Preaching? Marks of a Healthy Church 3
The Covenant and the Preaching
Keeping It Interesting as a Young Preacher
This article offers seven valuable points for those who are beginning to preach.
Three Reasons to Say “You” More Often in Your Sermons
Should a pastor use the second person pronoun in his preaching? This article lists three reasons in support of this.
Humour and Holiness
This article explores when humour is appropriate and inappropriate, also when it comes to preaching.
The Lost Art of Preaching with Conviction
Why is preaching with conviction at the heart of effective preaching? Because such preaching is penetrating, persuasive, and personal.
Apathy in the Pew: Preaching to the Uninvolved (Part Two)
Effective preaching and preaching to an involved congregation are the desires of every preacher. How do you get to preach in a way that the congregation becomes involved? This article considers five things: challenge their presuppositions, let them overhear the gospel, identify with people, dialogue with them, and preach for liberation.
Should a Preacher Use Humor from the Pulpit?
May the pastor use humour in the pulpit? The answer to the use of humour in preaching is both no and yes, as this article explains.
Different Responses to God's Word
Some Thoughts on Preaching
You or We?
Which personal pronouns should you use in preaching? Should it be "you and we," or "you and I"?
Information Overload
A Pastor’s Reflections: Did I Explain the Text?
This article considers the difference between exegesis and explanation of a text, helping the preacher evaluate whether he indeed explains the text in preaching.
A Pastor’s Reflections: Did I Preach Christ?
This article explains that preaching Christ is essential for every sermon.
A Pastor’s Reflections: Did I Apply the Text?
This article considers the nature and importance of application in preaching.
A Final Word on Self-Examination
Six Errors in Targeting Audiences
Targeting the 35-Yarder: The Open-Conscience Unbeliever
How the Scandal of Preaching Will Reach Our Postmodern World
This article shows how scandalous preaching is in a postmodern world. It shows what makes preaching set apart from the priorities of our age.
Veggie Tales, Moralism, and Modern Preaching
What place does the imperative have in preaching? When is preaching considered moralism? This article considers the place of moral imperatives in preaching, and shows by way of examples that sometimes it is fine to take large blocks of teaching and focus on Christian morals without fear of falling prey to moralism.
Three Reasons Your Pastor's Sermon Should Always Lead You to Jesus
Sermons should always lead you to Christ, because Christ-centred preaching is biblical, historical, and practical.
Eighteen Minutes or Less: Preaching in a Distracted World
Three Mysteries of Preaching We Don't Appreciate
What is preaching? It is God's Word in action, God's chosen tool, and for God's people.
Hope for the Weary Preacher
This article draws lessons from the ministry of John the Baptist to encourage ministers to preach with confidence, freedom, and joy.
I Am a Sinner Preaching to Sinners
How do Christ's undershepherds come to grips with the truth that they are sinners preaching to sinners? This article explains that preachers have to sit under their own preaching and teaching.
David Brainerd: Preach for Holiness by Preaching the Gospel
This article discusses the 18th-century American preacher, David Brainerd, particularly what his goal was with Christ-centred preaching: the practice of morality.
Why Topical Preaching Can Never Build a Healthy Church
This article discusses the vital importance of expository preaching in the church, over against topical preaching. It discusses the central role of the Word of God in bringing life, faith, and sanctification. It also explains the role of the preacher of the Word.
Privileges of Preaching the Gospel
The Word Became Fresh: How to Preach from Old Testament Narrative Texts
How do you properly interpret the Old Testament narratives in preparing to preach on them? This article offers several points as exercises in learning the proper interpretation of such narratives.
The Mandate of Biblical Inerrancy: Expository Preaching
This article shows that the only logical consequence of confessing the inerrancy of Scripture is expository preaching. Such preaching is the only method that preserves the purity of Scripture.
How to Proclaim Jesus and Make Disciples
Christ-centred preaching should be the desire of every pastor, in order to make mature followers of Christ. This article shows from the apostle Paul that Christ-centred preaching is possible when the preacher preaches like an evangelist, a prophet, and a theologian.
Five Reasons to Give Your Church Jesus
Preaching the gospel is essential to the life of the church, because the one thing that the church needs most is Jesus Christ. This article gives five reasons why preaching Christ is essential.
Holy Humour? The Danger of Being Funny in the Pulpit
Is Expository Preaching Boring?
Repentance – The Missing Note in Today's Preaching
Preaching today often lacks a call to repentance. This article explains why and explains the fruits of preaching repentance based on Scripture.
The Urgency of Preaching
Has the pulpit become an advice centre? Has the church lost the urgency of preaching? This article draws out the difference between preaching done out of the urgency Scripture and that which is based on populist mentality.
Do You Really Preach Sin Properly?
Preaching on sin is not easy. How can you preach sin properly? This article offers fifteen things to consider when preaching about sin.
Preaching to the Mind
Man's mind is by nature at war with God's truth. Preaching, however, can transform the mind. This article offers ways to addressing the mind and making the Word of God effectual to our hearers.
Christocentric or Christomonic?
Christ-centred preaching is vital for the church. Yet there is a fine line between preaching that is Christocentric and Christomonic. The latter preaches Christ from Scripture to the neglect of the Father and the Spirit. This article explains the tendency to slip into Christomonic preaching, and reminds from Scripture how Jesus' work of redemption includes the Father and the Spirit working with him to that end.
Teaching Our Children the Raw Parts of Scripture
Is it right or wise to expose children in the worship service to the deep depravity of men as revealed in various parts of Scripture? This article offers three reasons to do so: God commands it, the culture necessitates it for the defense of the faith, and our hearts need it. The article does advise sensitivity to the way in which those raw parts of Scripture are preached, and encourages ministers to help prepare the parents for what the children will hear.
It All Leads Straight to the Cross
Should every sermon bring its hearers to the cross, even if Christ himself did not do so? This article shows how everything the Lord Jesus said during his earthly ministry on the way to the cross must be read in the light of what he would accomplish at the cross. Thus, preaching needs to have the blood of Christ as its focal point every time again.
How Should We Preach Christ in Every Sermon?
This article discusses two principles that are of value when considering how to preach Christ in every sermon: ministers today are ministers of the new covenant, and must exercise hermeneutical completeness. The article follows up with a discussion of preaching Christ in the book of Proverbs.
Why We Should Preach Christ in Every Sermon
This article explains why it is essential to preach Christ in every sermon. It offers two main principles: biblical hermeneutics, and biblical example.
Should We Preach Christ in Every Sermon?
This article explains why it is essential to preach Christ in every sermon: Christ and his apostles practiced Christ-centred preaching, and the Bible calls for preaching Christ from every text.
Five Keys to Preaching Gospel-Centred Sermons
How do you preach gospel-centred sermons? This article explains five keys to this: learn to apply the gospel to yourself, stick with the sins revealed in the passage, be content with the passage's gospel solution, address your spiritual growth, and depend on the Holy Spirit.
How to Saturate Your Sermon with Application without Sacrificing Doctrine and Exegesis
How can you write a sermon full of application without sacrificing doctrine and exegesis? This article argues that by writing your main points in the form of a command, putting them in the present tense, and providing real-life examples of what it looks like to live out the text, you can fill your sermon with application.
5 Characteristics of Constantly Improving Preachers
How can you improve your preaching? It is not by trying tricks, but by being committed to preaching the gospel. Let this article explain from 1 Timothy 4:13-16 how you can make progress.
Maintaining Balance
This article calls for a balance in preaching, between heralding the whole counsel of God and including an evangelistic component.
The Choice of a Preaching Portion
How can you go about selecting a preaching text? This article discusses four determining factors for choosing a preaching portion.
The Clear and Present Danger of a Truncated Gospel
This article explains that the preaching of the gospel may not be limited to an emphasis on justification alone, but needs to include a word also on regeneration and sanctification.
Serious Preaching in a Comedy Culture
The Preacher's High Calling
This article explains why preachers must preach Christ crucified.
Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures
Rules for Preacher’s Conduct
What Is Bible Preaching?
What is biblical preaching? Based on 2 Timothy 4:2 this article argues that biblical preaching must be characterized by warning, challenge, and exhortation.
Preaching to Sufferers
How should preaching address suffering? This article explains that it is through preaching the sufferings of Christ, preaching as a fellow-sufferer, and preaching the coming kingdom.
12 Faults For Preachers To Avoid
The Value of Preaching in an Age of Visual Idolatry
The Necessity of Preaching International Conference of Reformed Churches Cardiff, August 2013
My Confession: Toward a More Balanced Gospel
Preaching only the gospel of grace is preaching an imbalanced gospel. This article explains that the balanced gospel is preached when grace and justice are preached together..
No Soft Soap The Gospel is Confronting, Compromising on that is a Betrayal
Preach Christ from the Gospels
This article stresses the importance of preaching Christ from the Gospels. This approach recognizes the Old Testament roots of the teachings found in the Gospels.
Preaching and Witness of the Spirit
Preach! Don’t Construct Sermons
What is the difference between preaching a sermon and preaching to a congregation? First, we have to know if there is a difference between preaching and sermon. This article attempts to address this issue.
Six Principles for Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
This article gives much food for thought on how to preach Christ from the Old Testament.
One Way to Make Sure You're Preaching a Sermon, Not Leading a Bible Study
What is the difference between a Bible study and a sermon? This article attempts to answer the question.
Targeting Audiences
Exposition – Is That What’s Needed?
This article discusses the distinction between exposition and heralding, suggesting that the former is a part of the latter.
Exposition Must Have Application
This article is about preaching as exposition and application.
Negative Preaching and the Modern Mind: A Crisis in Evangelical Preaching
This article is written from the conviction the preaching is the creation of the gospel itself. The concern of this article is that classic preaching as proclamation has almost completely disappeared from the life and agenda of the church.
Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
This article contains a discussion on preaching Christ from the Old Testament.
Christ-Centered Preaching – Word and Witness
This chapter explores the theological motive and purpose of preaching. The goal of preaching is not focused on a mere communication of information. Preaching is a means of transformation ordained by God that affects the relationship between God and man. Chapell notes God's power in using the Scriptures, a power mediated by Jesus Christ through his Spirit. The preaching of Christ is a means through which the Holy Spirit exercises his work and power.