Welcome to Preaching.org

Preaching.org is a community of people who are committed to helping people hear from God through the preaching of his Word. You might not think of yourself as a “preacher”, but if you are active in helping people hear what God is saying through his Word, whether in small groups, classes, youth groups, or pulpits, this site can help you.

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Trigger Phrases

As one who has become known for extemporaneous preaching, I am often questioned about the value of memorizing sermons. My standard response is to discourage memorization. Preachers who memories and present written manuscripts, may appear to be more oral in their approach, but rarely get past the recitation of a product that has been derived from literate [...]

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Developing Touch

Key to success in such varied pursuits as golf, piano, and preaching, is the ability to develop a sense of “touch.” Sinking a double breaking twelve foot downhill putt, or shaping the perfect diminuendo at the conclusion of well expressed sonata, requires a sense of touch that separates the many from the masters.  This quality [...]

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The Big Moment

For years I have profited from Haddon Robinson’s teaching that every sermon ought to offer a single “big idea.” This has always struck as a sensible approach both to exegesis and communication. The big idea has been a staple of my preaching and my teaching of preaching for many years. Recently, in addition to my [...]

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How Preachers can Harm the Depressed (or all of us for that matter).

A few months ago, David Murray offered a blogpost over at headhearthand.org in which he raised questions concerning the kind of sermons that can harm those who are suffering from clinical and other forms of mental depression. I was impressed with his insight and thought I would share the substance of it here. These, according [...]

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Recent Articles

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Preaching with Visuals

I published this several years ago. I think it still holds up!   The primary tool of a preacher is his or her voice. Of course, effective preachers have always understood the added power of a well-chosen visual aid. Jeremiah once hid a linen belt under a rock in order to help his audience visualize [...]

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Staying Awake

This work, in an effort to help those who endeavor to preach and teach, will examine briefly why listeners are not able to pay attention throughout the course of a lecture by looking at research on cognitive processing and attention spans. Then, a number of suggestions will be given to help speakers keep their listeners engaged throughout their lecture, which will in turn help their listeners to understand the message God has laid before them through the preacher’s work.

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Three Challenges for Homiletics Today

When asked to describe three challenges facing homiletics today, my immediate response is, “what, just three?” Forced as I am, however, to narrow my reflection, I would speak of an increased challenge to the nature of authority in the preaching task today, a related pressure to give greater place to dialogue in our preaching, and in consequence, a perception of a lack ofaspiration among the young among us who no longer hear the call to preach or find such calls preach compelling.

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Recent Book Reviews

Koessler - Folly, Grace, and Power

Folly, Grace, and Power

Author: John Koessler — Reviewed by: Kenton Anderson — Review Posted March 14, 2012 at 4:15 pm

One of my mentors once said that “preaching is the crowning discipline”, because no matter what other subject in theological education that we might be studying, eventually we are going to have to preach it. What he probably should have also said is that while preaching might, in some sense crown theology, it most definitely [...]

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Excellence in Preaching

Author: Simon Vibert — Reviewed by: Kent Anderson — Review Posted January 12, 2012 at 2:11 pm

I am always interested in hearing from and about the most prominent preachers of any particular era, so I was pleased to see the release of Simon Vibert’s Excellence in Preaching (IVP 2011). Vibert comes from the Centre for Preaching at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, so he brings a trans-Atlantic sensibility to the task, focusing on [...]

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Quicke - Preaching as Worship

Preaching as Worship

Author: Michael J. Quicke — Reviewed by: Kent Anderson — Review Posted September 22, 2011 at 11:12 am

Those who have followed my own work will know that I welcome any effort that emphasizes a less-polarized, more integrative homiletic. On the particular concern that preaching be more fully integrated with worship, I am particularly enthusiastic.

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