Sermon Helps Featured Articles Archives

• Preaching and the Externally-Focused Church: An Interview with Rick Rusaw  (January 1, 2007)
  Rick is the co-author of The Externally Focused Church and 60 Simple Things Every Pastor Should Know, and his newest book is Living a Life on Loan. He was recently interviewed by Preaching editor Michael Duduit.
• Preaching as Dialogue  (December 5, 2011)
  Moving Beyond the "Speaching" of the Word
• Let the Spirit Lead Your Church  (November 19, 2007)
  The Holy Spirit has a particular purpose for your congregation. Learn more about The Ministry of the Missional Church.
• Competent to Rule: Qualifications of Church Leadership  (October 3, 2007)
  Good government isn't a given. Not in the state, and not in the church.
• Making Room for Atheism  (October 22, 2007)
  How do we express a passion for God's supremacy in a pluralistic world
• Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Sermon Illustrations?  (November 16, 2007)
  "I love to preach and teach, but the hardest part for me is finding just the right story or quote to reinforce what I'm teaching..." If that sounds familiar, click here.
• End Times for Evangelicals  (November 2, 2007)
  A New York Times article places a finger on the pulse of evangelical Christianity regarding the real and growing divide between generations of evangelicals in terms of emphasis, spirit and method.
• Preaching in a Changing Culture: An Interview with N.T. Wright  (July 12, 2007)
  N.T. Wright was one of the featured speakers at the recent International Congress on Preaching in Cambridge, where he was interviewed by Preaching editor Michael Duduit
• Preaching and the House Church Movement  (September 26, 2007)
  House Church. For pastors, the mere term once conjured up images of angry men and women gathered around a kitchen table, condemning the mis­takes and failures of the traditional church they had left for one reason or another...
• An Interview with Max Lucado: Preaching John 3:16  (November 1, 2007)
  his newest book, 3:16, Lucado explores that great passage we know as John 3:16. He recently visited with Preaching editor Michael Duduit about the sermon series that led to the book, then discussed his own approach to preaching.
• Preaching by Lectionary  (September 14, 2007)
  The heart of preaching is found in the interplay between the preacher coming to God?s Word in Scripture and then bringing people to God?s Word...
• A Battle for Integrity  (October 22, 2007)
  You want to shock the world? Start here--demonstrating the guts to do what's right when no one is looking.
• The Preacher as Lifelong Learner  (January 1, 2007)
  Options for Continuing Education in Ministry
• Preaching the Psalms as Stories  (November 1, 2007)
  I had an epiphany while listening to Johnny Cash that transformed the way I preached the Psalms.
• What Women Wish Their Preacher Knew  (May 1, 2007)
  Many Christian women today view the sermon?the proclamation of the gospel?as the centerpiece of the worship experience. They yearn for the serious pastor to stand with integrity in the pulpit, open his Bible to a particular text, and preach deep, accurate, biblical theology.
• Preaching Dangerously  (September 1, 2007)
  An Interview with Mark Labberton, Sr. Pastor of First Presbyertian Church of Berkley, Califonia.
• The pain in being a pastor  (November 11, 2007)
  I've had some interesting conversations about this topic this week - there can be a lot of pain in ministry. The highs are really high but sometimes the lows can be really low. I heard one person suggest that being a pastor sometimes means you have a target on your back. Friends, being in the ministry is so worth it. Is it difficult? Yup. Will it test you in ways you don't want to be tested? Oh yeah.
• Choosing to Preach  (January 1, 2007)
  Choosing to Preach is a call to preach biblical sermons and, at the same time, to recognize that there are many ways to carry out that mandate.
• Your Pastor's Pain: Whose Fault Is It?  (August 10, 2007)
  Cruel, ungodly behavior toward your pastor is a mark of shame on the church of Jesus Christ.
• The Theology of Sermon Design  (September 1, 2007)
  Current homiletic approaches did not materialize in a vacuum. Their ascendancy to popularity did not just happen. Today at least three winds of influence swirl around contemporary homiletic discussion: theology, literary criticism and culture. Pastors who would think deeply about the form of their sermons and who care about faithfulness to the gospel must wrestle with the issues raised by each of these areas of thought.