Jeremy Meeks

On Doing Your Own Work | Preachers Talk, Ep. 26

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 07.08.2021

Though the question of what it means to do your own work in the pulpit has been raised a lot recently, Dave Helm, Ed Copeland, and Jeremy Meeks had a conversation months ago about this perennially important topic.

On Cross-Cultural Preaching (with John Onwuchekwa) | Preachers Talk, Ep. 26

By J. Meeks, J. Onwuchekwa, K. Edward Copeland | 06.24.2021

God’s Word is for everyone. But how do we preach to people who are quite different from our ordinary audience?

On Preaching as an Assistant (Preachers Talk, Ep. 25)

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 06.10.2021

On Power for Preparation | Preachers Talk, Ep. 23

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 04.30.2021

Preachers need the Holy Spirit’s help as they prepare. In this episode of Preachers Talk, Jeremy Meeks chats with Ed Copeland and David Helm about “power for preparation.”

On Ethos (Preachers Talk, Ep. 22)

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 04.08.2021

What’s ethos? That vital and indispensable attribute of credibility.

Preachers Talk Mailbag #1

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 03.25.2021

In this episode of Preachers Talk, Jeremy Meeks pulls from the mailbag and asks Ed Copeland and David Helm questions about preaching.

On Conclusions | Preachers Talk, Ep. 20

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 03.11.2021

In this episode of Preachers Talk, Jeremy Meeks chats with David Helm and K. Edward Copeland about how to thoughtfully conclude a sermon.

On Typology | Preachers Talk, Ep. 19

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 02.25.2021

Jeremy Meeks chats with David Helm and K. Edward Copeland about preaching and typology.

On Guest Preaching | Preachers Talk, Ep. 17

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 01.28.2021

In this episode of Preachers Talk, David Helm sits in the interviewer’s chair and chats with Ed Copeland and Jeremy Meeks about how to approach guest preaching.

On Biblical Quotations and Allusions (with Michael Lawrence) | Preachers Talk, Ep. 16

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, M. Lawrence | 01.14.2021

In this episode of Preachers Talk, Jeremy Meeks chats with David Helm and Michael Lawrence about how preachers ought to approach the Bible’s many quotations and allusions.

On The Preaching Moment (Preachers Talk, Ep. 15)

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 12.17.2020

When God’s people gather for corporate worship to sit under God’s Word, it’s different than a Bible study or a Sunday School class. It is—or at least it should be—transcendent.

On Historical Trajectory (Preachers Talk, Ep. 14)

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 12.03.2020

While preparing a sermon, preachers need to pay careful attention to their text’s historical trajectory. What’s “historical trajectory”?

Preachers Talk, Episode 13: On the Personal Process of Writing a Sermon

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 11.12.2020

In this episode of Preachers Talk, Jeremy Meeks asks Ed and David how the “sermon sausage gets made.” From Sunday to Sunday, how does this sermon-prep and sermon-writing process work?

Preachers Talk, Episode 12: On Discerning the Structure of A Biblical Text

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 10.22.2020

How do you figure out the structure of a biblical text? After you figure out the structure, how then do you create an outline for your sermon?

In Episode 12 of Preachers Talk, Jeremy Meeks chats with David Helm and K Edward Copeland about this.

Preachers Talk, Episode 11: On Finding Your Voice

By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 10.08.2020

Every preacher has been shaped by others preachers. That’s inevitable. But how can preachers find their own voice even as they appreciate their various influences?