“It is healthy for pastors to feel the weightiness and pressure of the ministry of the Word. Yet I believe small-town pastors face some challenges that might turn this healthy pressure into an unhealthy sense of frustration.” - RHMA
“We’re “sitcom” people accustomed to listening in spurts interrupted by commercials. Congregations are the same way, so here are some steps to take to help them listen better” - Baptist Press
“…there’s a difference between preaching from a passage and preaching the passage, and that difference matters more than we think. So let’s slow this down together. What is exegetical preaching really? Before we assume we’re doing this, we need to define it very clearly.” - GARBC
“I will never forget the phone call from the chairman of the search committee informing me that the church had overwhelmingly voted to call me as their next senior pastor….
“If you are teaching a small group or preaching a sermon this week, you recognize that your preparation matters. You might even have a pattern of prep you have followed for a number of years. Even if you do, though, maybe one of these unique ways to prepare might help you this weekend” - Chuck Lawless
“Notice three things that Peter did in his evangelistic preaching that those of us who preach the Gospel can also do.” - Baptist Press
By C. H. Spurgeon. Sermon 2197 delivered on Lord’s-day morning, March 29th, 1891 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Rom. 6:4)
I HAVE AFORETIME preached upon the whole verse, so that this morning I shall take the liberty to dwell chiefly upon the latter part of it—“Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
“Should Sunday sermons be evangelistic—or focused on believers? In this episode, Matt Smethurst, Ligon Duncan, and Garrett Kell tackle a false dichotomy: faithful preaching should do both.” - TGC
Preach the kingdom? Is that the same as preaching the gospel? What about the gospel of the kingdom?
The Great Commission is clear: preach the Gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15). But when the early church obeyed this command, they also preached the kingdom of God (Acts 8:12; 19:8; 20:25; 28:23, 31). Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom as He offered the kingdom to Israel (Mark 1:14). Yet, He also spoke of the gospel of the kingdom being proclaimed in a future Tribulation (Matthew 24:14). What should we preach today? How should we preach it?
“And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” - 1 Corinthians 2:3–5 (ESV)
What did Paul mean when he wrote of his “weakness…in fear and much trembling?” Clearly, Paul was connecting his preaching to these things (“…my speech and my message…”). I think that Paul’s words here are a much-needed correction to the celebrity culture within the Western church today.
