Preaching
Recommended New Testament Commentaries for Evangelical Pastors
By Thomas R. Schreiner | 02.03.2023Tom Schreiner recommends what he thinks are the best New Testament commentaries for pastors to consult.
Book Review: Biblical Preaching, by Haddon W. Robinson
Review by Kevin DeYoung | 01.19.2023Kevin DeYoung reviews his former preaching professor Haddon Robinson’s renown textbook ‘Biblical Preaching’.
On Cultural Context (Preachers Talk, Ep. 48)
By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 01.19.2023The Bible was written a long time ago to people who were both very similar to and very different from us.
Listen to this episode of Preachers Talk as Ed, Dave, and Jeremy discuss how to use and not use cultural context.
Book Review: Workers for Your Joy, by David Mathis
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 01.09.2023It’s far too easy to wait for a crisis to pay attention to your pastor. Mathis shows us a better way.
Preacher, What’s on Your Kids Menu?
By John Joseph | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Ministries | 11.28.2022We want our kids to know that the church is for them, Jesus is for them, and eternal life is for them, so let’s speak to them in our sermons.
The Aim of Preaching in an Increasingly Hostile Culture to Christianity
By John Piper | 11.21.2022John Piper was recently asked, “How can American pastors begin to prepare the churches for persecution?”
Book Review: A Manual for Preaching, by Abraham Kuruvilla
Review by Kevin Walker | 11.16.2022Kevin Walker of Simeon Trust reviews SBTS professor Abraham Kuruvilla’s book ‘A Manual for Preaching’.
5 Effects of Expository Preaching on a Church
By Anand Samuel | 10.21.2022How does sitting under expository preaching 52 Sundays a year change a church?
Pastors Teach
By David Mathis | 09.14.2022We need men who are eager to teach. Not just men willing to have their arm bent once in a while to fill a slot.
Treasuring the Trail of Translation: Why Read the Greek New Testament Before You Teach the English One
By Matt Sliger | 09.06.2022If you’ve been taught the language, read the Greek New Testament before you teach the English one. And if you haven’t been taught the language, attempt to learn it for four reasons.
Book Review: The Beauty and Power of Biblical Exposition, by Douglas Sean O’Donnell & Leland Ryken
Review by John Musyimi | 08.25.2022‘The Beauty and Power of Biblical Exposition’ is written to help pastors pay better attention to all “the literary dimensions of the Bible,” in hopes to rescue preachers (and congregations) from “sermons filled with merely abstract theological propositions and proof-texted moral applications.”
13 Pillars for Planting Healthy Churches
By Matt Rogers | 04.11.2022What ingredients are necessary to plant healthy, strong, biblical churches—and sustain them?
Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah . . . Oh My!—Practical Help for Preaching Longer Books
By Jeff Wiesner | 01.05.2022I hope the following eight “tips” will help preachers delight in the Scriptures as they prepare to preach—and persevere!—through its biggest books.
Teaching the Trinity through Expositional Preaching
By Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Sound Doctrine: The Foundation for Faithful Ministry | 11.16.2021The Trinity is one of the most central and crucial Christian doctrines; it is also one of the least prooftext-able.
Why Preaching Is Primary and the Ordinances Aren’t
By Jonty Rhodes | 9Marks Journal: The Ordinary Means of Grace—Or, Don’t Do Weird Stuff | 07.26.2021Still today it is through the Word, not the bare ordinances, that men and women are “born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God” (1 Pet. 1:23).
