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I love to preach, but sermon preparation has never come easy for me. Even though I had some great homiletical training in seminary, I quickly found I was unprepared for the reality of constructing and delivering a message every Sunday and sometimes several more during a typical week. To make matters worse, outside of the … Continue reading “The Art of Sermon Coaching”

There’s a reason they call him “the mouth of the South.” Now he’s at it again.Recently Ted Turner was all over the news, not because he started a new cable channel or married another celebrity or even gave another billion to the United Nations. No, the news was that Ted insulted some Christians who work … Continue reading “Did CNN Report on This One?”

Remember Preaching 101? On the first day of class your professor said, “In this course you will write, think and sleep preaching.” Then over the next few sessions he demonstrated the three types of sermons with a booming voice that rattled the windowpanes. Everyone in the class was awed (and filled with just a bit … Continue reading “The Stream Of Consciousness Sermon”

To what extent is the Pauline letter a distinctive form of Christian persuasion? It is in the area of inventio that we discover most clearly the distinctiveness of Paul’s preaching. Although Paul appeals to some of the common proofs of rhetoric, many of these similarities of argument are more apparent than real, for Paul’s relationship … Continue reading “Preaching Like Paul”

Brian McLaren has become one of the key thinkers and writers on the issue of doing ministry in a postmodern age. A former English professor at the University of Maryland, he left academia in 1986 to become founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Baltimore-Washington metro area. He is author of The Church … Continue reading “Preaching to Postmoderns: An Interview with Brian McLaren”

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At last count, a little book entitled The Prayer of Jabez has sold about 50 bazillion copies, and it’s still on top of the best seller lists. (OK, it’s actually about 5 million, but the bazillion sales target should kick in any day now.) Not only that, now author Bruce Wilkinson has a follow-up book … Continue reading “The Sermon of Jabez”

“A fire burns before them, and behind them a flame burns.” So warns the prophet Joel of its impending judgment upon his wayward nation. In a different sense, the words can be said of Joel himself and the other minor prophets.Their words burn away the dry, deadness of half-hearted religion. Their words spark a pure, … Continue reading “Releasing the Fire Turning the Minor Prophets Loose in Our Congregations”

Sermons develop in three major ways: deductively, semi-inductively or inductively. In the deductive arrangement, the idea is stated completely as part of the introduction to the sermon, and then the sermon develops out of that idea. In the inductive development, the introduction leads only to the first point in the sermon, then with strong transitions … Continue reading “The Shapes Sermons Take”

Haddon Robinson is one of the most influential persons in the homiletical world. The author of the immensely-popular textbook Biblical Preaching (a second edition is due out this summer from Baker Books), he has influenced thousands of evangelical preachers through his writing and through his former stu-dents who now teach homiletics, Robin-son, a native of … Continue reading “Expository Preaching in a Narrative World: An Interview with Haddon Robinson”