In Preaching Articles:

4 Ways Your Church Can Help People Simplify Christmas

By Karl Vaters on Dec 13, 2025

It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but Christmas is also the busiest.

Tags: Christmas, Christmas Eve, Holidays, Giving, teach, simplify, Christmas Joy, church leadership  (view more)  (view less)

Prepare Your Heart To Lead Your Home: Advent Advice For Fathers

By Douglas Wilson on Dec 12, 2025

A father who wants to lead and disciple his family needs to remember that the one thing he must cultivate is heart loyalty. He must, of course, connect that loyalty to scriptural and worthy objects, but if he does not have heart loyalty, childrearing will simply be one grief replaced by another.

Scripture: Ephesians 6:4

Tags: Christmas, Advent, parenting, discipling, teach children, Discipline, Attitudes of thanks, child training  (view more)  (view less)

Fill Your Christmas Preaching With Nobodies

By Ray Hollenbach on Dec 11, 2025

God didn’t announce Christ to the powerful but to the overlooked. Christmas reveals a kingdom where grace, not status, brings sinners near to the Savior.

Scripture: Luke 1:30, Luke 2:8-11, Matthew 2:1-11, 1 Corinthians 1:26-29, Isaiah 60:1-6  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Mary, Christmas, Preaching, Incarnation, nobody, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

Prepare For Christmas Like John The Baptist

By Jimmy Gentry on Dec 10, 2025

Christmas preparation is more than shopping and stress. Scripture calls us to repentance, simplicity, and worship as we ready our hearts for Christ.

Scripture: Matthew 3:13-17, Luke 3:7-14, Matthew 1:21, Luke 2:13-14, John 4:23  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Christmas, Worship, repentance, prepare, john the baptist, Repentance  (view more)  (view less)

10 Ways To Overcome A Sense Of Christmas Loss

By Ron Edmondson on Dec 9, 2025

Several years ago, to prepare for a Christmas message, I consulted with two professional Christian counselors in our church.

Tags: Christmas, Grief, Worship General

A Novel Idea For Preaching Christmas

By H.b. Charles, Jr. on Dec 8, 2025

We assume our congregations know the biblical story and doctrinal meaning of Christmas. So we avoid major texts and look for something new or novel to say about the old, old story.

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:12-15

Tags: Christmas, Preaching, Birth of Jesus, storytelling, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

From Desiring God Ministries: The Essential Secret Of Preaching

By Tony Merida on Dec 6, 2025

The key to effective preaching is not mastering certain techniques, but being mastered by certain convictions.

Tags: Preaching, preaching

When Illustrations Become Sermon-Killers (And What To Do About Them)

By Joe Mckeever on Dec 5, 2025

The smart preacher never tells a story that clobbers his sermon and destroys the point he is trying to make.

Tags: Preaching, preaching

10 Things I'd Do Differently In My Pastoral Work

By Bob Hostetler on Dec 4, 2025

Bob Hoestetler's been preaching and pastoring for years. He's learned a few lessons along the way.

Tags: Preaching, preaching

The Main Reason Our Sermons Don't Get Through To People

By Nathan Aaseng on Dec 3, 2025

Ask the average person in the street what Christianity is about and the answer will be nowhere near what most of us proclaim in our pulpits every week.

Scripture: John 8:1-11

Tags: Preaching, preaching

5 Practices Of A Peaceful Home

By SermonCentral .com on Dec 2, 2025

It's so much easier to share God's peace from the pulpit if you experience God's peace at home.

Scripture: Mark 10:17

Tags: Preaching, preaching

Francis Chan: 7 Questions To Ask Before You Preach

By Francis Chan on Dec 1, 2025

In a message at a Desiring God National Conference, Francis Chan highlighted seven questions that he asks himself in preparing to preach.

Scripture: Luke 1:8-10, Luke 8:1-10

Tags: Preaching, preaching

Adapt Or Fail: 6 Steps Any Church Can Take

By SermonCentral .com on Nov 29, 2025

Small churches have the ability to adapt more quickly than our larger counterparts. Like steering a speedboat instead of an ocean liner.

Scripture: Exodus 23:20-33

Tags: Preaching, preaching

Have You Preached The Five Blessings That Flow From Thanksgiving?

By J. John on Nov 28, 2025

Gratitude is hardwired into humanity and woven throughout Scripture. Biblical thanksgiving is innocent, intelligent, and inclusive, yielding grace, hope, and generosity.

Scripture: Titus 2:1-10, Matthew 26:26-27, Philippians 4:6, Colossians 3:15-17, 1 Thessalonians 5:18  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Thanksgiving, Preaching, gratitude, focus, five blessings, preaching, Gratitude  (view more)  (view less)

The Lost Art Of Feasting

By David Mathis on Nov 27, 2025

"Most of us have never given any serious thought to what it might mean to feast with Christ-honoring intentionality."

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:31, 1 Timothy 4:4-5, Luke 14:13, Romans 14:5-6

Tags: Thanksgiving, Fellowship, Community, feast, Christian Joy, give thanks, thank god, Thanksgiving Holiday, community, fellowship  (view more)  (view less)