Sermon Development

Sermon Development
Building Sermons that Build the Church Part 1

“For the first five years of ministry, it felt like [...]

Sermon Development
Using Commentaries Effectively and Faithfully

Commentaries play an important role in the preacher’s exegetical work. [...]

Sermon Development
Sermons Form around Verbal Landmarks: Ideas and Images Created by Our Words

In this essay, I want [...]

Sermon Development
Rule of Three

The Rule of Three is a way of organizing written and spoken language by grouping items into [...]

Sermon Development
Commandments for Biblical Preaching Part 2: Break All the Rules

In Part 1 of this [...]

Sermon Development
Commandments for Biblical Preaching Part 1: Keep These Words in Your Heart

I offer here ten commandments [...]

Sermon Development
Writing and Not Writing the Sermon

How do you procrastinate when you’re writing a sermon? Most [...]

Sermon Development
Back to the Basics

Developing Focus in Sermons During my seminary internship I was scheduled to preach on the first Sunday [...]

Sermon Development
Sunday after Sunday

Most parish pastors are weekly preachers, and there is great joy in this regular privilege of proclaiming [...]

Sermon Development
More than Good Theology – Part Three

Use of Voice We all know that, in speaking, change [...]