TOPIC INDEXEssays on Preaching (251)

  1. The Rituals of Preaching

    book
    04/13/24
    25 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Rituals, like the liturgy and the sacraments, resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.

  2. Preaching an Awe-fully Mysterious and Wondrous God

    book
    04/06/24
    21 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    God reveals Himself as a tender-hearted, deeply caring parent—even to the point of deeply grieving over us when we stop listening to Him. But in Job, and sometimes in our daily experience, He reveals Himself as a whole lot more.

  3. Using Easter

    book
    03/23/24
    12 mins
    By John T. Pless
    Using Easter means the peace of Christ is to be preached into the conscience of those held captive by sin and death.

  4. Passion Sunday's Dynamic of Location

    book
    03/16/24
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Preaching the inseparability of Jesus and Jerusalem is to proclaim God’s Messiah and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.

  5. Don't Forget Satan on Easter

    book
    03/09/24
    16 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    That Jesus is risen from the dead means, now and forever, Satan is bound, and it is determined he has no right to try to have a say in our lives.

  6. The Preacher's Toolbox: Preach Till You Drop

    book
    03/02/24
    16 mins
    By Ryan Tinetti
    What all variations of affable chatter share in common is that the preacher does not do justice to the most salient fact about him and his hearers: They are dead men walking.

  7. Book Review: Preparing Sermons from the Page to the Pulpit by Walter Baxter

    book
    02/24/24
    12 mins
    By Bob Hiller
    Baxter is concerned that much of the Church’s preaching has become either too moralistic or too spiritualized. What’s his answer to this problem? Expository preaching.

  8. The Sermon Not "Liked"

    book
    02/17/24
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Whatever happened to things not liked? Can there be such a thing anymore? Does the desire to have a sermon “liked” factor into the craft of preaching?

  9. The Preacher's Toolbox: The Lively Skeleton

    book
    02/10/24
    15 mins
    By Ryan Tinetti
    A solid structure, a lively skeleton, inarguably makes your messages more life-giving. They will be clearer, more interesting, and easier both to follow and to remember.

  10. Transfiguration Is for Preaching

    book
    02/03/24
    18 mins
    By John T. Pless
    Behind the preacher stands Christ Jesus. Preachers listen to Jesus so that, in turn, they may preach Him, and their congregations may hear the voice of the Good Shepherd from the mouths of their pastors.

  11. Deep Diagnosis: Preaching to the Heart (Part 3)

    book
    01/27/24
    9 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Sin affects body and soul, right down to the core of our humanity. It calls for a drastic cure, for extreme measures.

  12. The Preacher's Toolbox: Passion Trumps Polish

    book
    01/20/24
    16 mins
    By Ryan Tinetti
    But what God’s people want and need more than a perfect sermon, or even necessarily a polished one, is a true one.
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