In Preaching Articles: "Preaching Team"

Rightly Dividing The Preaching Load

By Larry Osborne on Mar 18, 2025

Sharing the pulpit can strengthen a church, sustain its pastor, and deepen preaching impact by developing trusted co-preachers instead of a one-man show.

Scripture: Acts 20:28, 2 Timothy 4:2, Ephesians 4:11-12, 1 Corinthians 12:4-7, 1 Peter 5:2-4  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Sermon Preparation, sermon preparation

Better Ingredients, Better Preaching

By Peter Mead on May 31, 2020

Even slight shifts in tone, focus, or structure can distort a sermon’s flavor. Guard the gospel, preach the text, and let Scripture, not your outline, set the menu.

Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Corinthians 4:5, Nehemiah 8:8, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, Romans 1:16  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Pastoral

Preaching God's Dangerous Truth

By Sherman Haywood Cox on Jun 16, 2020

Preaching must resist political birthright-stealers and proclaim the dangerous truth that God has come. Advent calls us to vision, courage, and bold proclamation.

Scripture: Luke 2:10, Matthew 13:17, Matthew 10:7, Revelation 10:10-11, Micah 4:1-2  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, preaching, pastoral courage, Pastoral Courage

Tips For Preaching To A Hard Audience

By Dr. Larry Moyer on Aug 22, 2024

Preaching to hardened hearts is difficult, but Scripture, humility, communication skill, and dependence on God can break through where human effort cannot.

Scripture: Romans 7:24, John 16:8, John 17:20, 2 Timothy 2:25, Ephesians 4:15  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: spiritual leadership, Spiritual Leadership

Why Story Preaching Works

By Peter Mead on Apr 10, 2025

Biblical stories were inspired in both content and form. When preachers honor the narrative shape, tension, and pacing, the Word lands with clarity, power, and conviction.

Scripture: John 12:21-34

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Preach To The Ignorant, The Doubtful, And Sinners

By Mark Dever on Sep 3, 2024

Biblical application is not optional in expository preaching. Faithful sermons address ignorance, doubt, and sin by informing, urging belief, and calling for obedience.

Scripture: Romans 10:11-17, Proverbs 23:12, Galatians 4:19, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Hebrews 4:12  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, Teaching Scripture, preaching

Are You Preaching With A Plastic Voice?

By Dr. David Teague on Jul 16, 2020

Society is filled with plastic voices. Preaching requires someone to embody the Word of God.

Scripture: Numbers 23:7, Psalm 36:1, Isaiah 13:1, Jeremiah 23:33-38, Romans 12:1  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Incarnation, voice, Pastoral Formation

The Role Of Preaching In Church Planting

By SermonCentral .com on Aug 3, 2020

Many church planting models emphasize systems and strategy, but preaching remains a God-ordained means of grace that should not be delayed or neglected.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:21, Romans 10:14-17, 2 Timothy 4:2, Acts 2:42, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, church planting, Pastoral Ministry, preaching, Church Planting  (view more)  (view less)

Is Your Preaching God-Centered?

By Bernie Van Eyk on Sep 10, 2024

People crave practical help, but their deepest need is God Himself. God-centered preaching lifts hearts from self to the glory revealed in Jesus Christ.

Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:4, Genesis 1:1, Psalm 73:17-26, John 1:18, 1 Corinthians 2:2  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, spiritual formation, preaching, Spiritual Formation

Preaching: A Ten-Year Conversation

By Ray Hollenbach on Apr 29, 2025

After we step down from the pulpit, we are still involved in the lives of our people. In fact, their lives become an indicator of how effective our preaching really is.

Scripture: Jeremiah 2:13

Tags: Preaching, preaching

How To Preach Practical Holiness

By SermonCentral .com on Apr 28, 2025

John Piper draws four guidelines from 1 Thessalonians to help preachers bring holiness to life.

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8, 1 Peter 1:15-16

Tags: Preaching, Holiness, Practical, e, preaching, holiness  (view more)  (view less)

Preaching The Power Of The Person Of Christ

By Peter Mead on Sep 11, 2020

If the God in our sights is benign, our preaching will be the same.

Tags: Love, Preaching, Prosperity, redemption, God's Kingdom, Kingdom of God, kingdom of God  (view more)  (view less)

Seven Secrets Of Poor Preaching

By Ken Collins on Sep 10, 2020

Here are a few tips for making your sermons truly lousy, eminently forgettable, and completely ineffective. Of course, you could choose to do the opposite.

Scripture: Titus 1:14, 1 Timothy 1:4

Tags: Preaching, preaching

Does Preaching Still Work?

By Kenton C. Anderson on Oct 6, 2020

Kenton Anderson wonders, "Perhaps preachers have lost faith in preaching because they've been offering too much poor preaching."

Tags: Preaching

14 Commandments Of Video Preaching

By Jim Tomberlin on Sep 21, 2020

Remember as you prepare your messages to be mindful that you’re teaching a multisite flock that encompasses more than those in the room with you.

Tags: Preaching, preaching