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Craft of Preaching
Craft of Preaching provides helpful resources for pastors engaged in the typical weekly routine of preparing a sermon. We seek to impact the conversation regarding quality preaching while offering tools that aid in improving a pastor’s skills in this task.
About Craft of Preaching
Advent Midweek Sermon 3: The Third Article of the Apostles' Creed
The Holy Spirit is fixated on Jesus and it is the Spirit’s mission to bring us to faith in Him for He is the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
When Your Sermon Is Not Your Sermon
This is the key to understanding missions and preaching: It is His mission, His message. Christ commissions only His Kingdom of God message to be preached, period. You are not at liberty.
Old Testament: Isaiah 35:1-10 (Advent 3: Series A)
Isaiah’s beautiful prophetic language describing the, “Coming of the Promised One,” is very familiar to us, but the challenge is always to determine to which coming of the Messiah Isaiah’s prophecy is pointing towards.
Epistle: James 5:7-11 (Advent 3: Series A)
James takes the Jewish expectation and thoroughly baptizes it in the light of the fact of the Incarnation. Messiah has come.
Gospel: Matthew 11:2-15 (Advent 3: Series A)
There he sat, awaiting his executioner. John looked around at what God and His Messiah were not doing, and even the greatest among those born of woman had his doubts. “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”