In Preaching Articles:

Does Your Sermon Pass The Geography Test?

By Chris Surber on Aug 17, 2025

The Gospel is for everybody everywhere. Is your sermon?

Scripture: Colossians 3:1-5

Tags: pain, Sin, Preaching, suffering, affluence, preaching, Pain  (view more)  (view less)

Forget Seminaries: What Are You Doing To Train The Next Generation Of Preachers?

By Chris Surber on Aug 15, 2025

We have a lot of people genuinely called, sincerely gifted people who struggle to find their way past the gatekeepers in our churches and denominations.

Scripture: Colossians 3:1-5, Mark 5:24-34

Tags: Discipleship, Gift, Seminary, Next Generation

One Vital Preaching Skill That Just Can't Be Faked: Do You Have It?

By SermonCentral .com on Aug 14, 2025

Brandon Cox challenges us to ask ourselves the tough questions about a core value.

Tags: Preaching, prepare, listener, orator, preaching skill, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

What To Do When Your Preaching Turns Stale

By Peter Mead on Aug 13, 2025

On the dashboard of our ministry life, we need to have a light that flashes when we are preaching flat. What causes it? What should we do?

Tags: Preaching, give thanks, stale, ministry life, spiritual dryness, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

4 Reasons Why Some Preachers Get Better And Others Don't

By Hershael York on Aug 12, 2025

What makes the difference between someone who grows in preaching versus someone who doesn't?

Tags: Preaching, passion, stagnant, Improve, calling, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

Don't Kill Your Message!

By Carey Nieuwhof on Aug 11, 2025

What’s the difference between a sermon that flops and a sermon that people still buzz about years later?

Tags: Preaching, Lame, communicate, crash, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

Is Your Church Stuck Or Just Small?

By SermonCentral .com on Aug 10, 2025

Many pastors chase numerical growth and miss what they already have. A healthy small church is not a failed church. It may be exactly what God intended.

Scripture: Acts 1:1-15, Acts 2:42-47, 1 Corinthians 12:12-18, Matthew 18:20, Zechariah 4:10  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Growth, Church Growth, Healthy Church, effective, Small Church  (view more)  (view less)

Preaching Revelation As Hope, Not Horror

By Ed Cyzewski on Aug 8, 2025

Revelation was never meant to terrify believers into salvation. Recovered in its original context, it is a pastoral letter of hope for suffering churches that still speaks powerfully today.

Scripture: Revelation 1:3, Revelation 12:17, Revelation 6:10, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 22:6-7  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Revelation, Preaching, wrong, Meaning, Context, preaching, context  (view more)  (view less)

The Bible Works!

By SermonCentral .com on Aug 7, 2025

Phil Strout: "Everyone has an opinion. And guess what? So does God, and he's communicated it to us."

Tags: Bible, Word of God, Opinion, communicate, phil strout, bible  (view more)  (view less)

10 Things That Will Ruin Your Sermon

By Jared Moore on Aug 6, 2025

If you want your hearers focused on God when they leave, there are ten common preaching mistakes you cannot afford to make. Each one pulls attention away from the Word and toward the wrong thing.

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Nehemiah 8:8, 2 Timothy 4:2, 1 Corinthians 2:1-4

Tags: Preaching, neglect, error, avoid, Sermon Preparation, preaching, sermon preparation  (view more)  (view less)

A Preacher’s Mantra: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate

By Mike Miller on Aug 5, 2025

A student pilot’s emergency landing became a vivid picture of faithful sermon preparation. Exegesis first, structure second, communication last; get the order wrong and you risk a crash.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 2 Timothy 2:15, Nehemiah 8:8, Acts 17:11

Tags: Preaching, Preacher, Pilot, crash, Homiletics, preaching, preacher  (view more)  (view less)

7 Ways To Refresh Your Stale Preaching

By Ryan Huguley on Aug 4, 2025

Periodically, every pastor to whom God gives the privilege of preaching weekly will find themselves in a rut.

Scripture: Isaiah 40:31, 2 Timothy 4:2, Psalm 119:18

Tags: Preaching, teach, Retreat, trick, Preaching Rut, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

Preachers Should Be Afraid To Preach

By Leslie Holmes on Aug 3, 2025

After forty-five years in the pulpit, this preacher still feels fear before he preaches, and he thinks every faithful preacher should. Holy fear is not a weakness; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Scripture: Proverbs 1:7, Isaiah 6:5, Mark 4:41, Exodus 19:16, 1 John 4:18  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, pulpit, preach, Pastoral Ministry, preaching, Pulpit, Holy Fear  (view more)  (view less)

How To Preach On Kindness In 5 Minutes And 44 Seconds

By SermonCentral .com on Aug 1, 2025

Here's an outstanding video to introduce any message dealing with kindness or serving others.

Tags: Love, Message, Preaching, Kindness, good samaritan, preaching, love  (view more)  (view less)

In The Spirit Of Screwtape–20 Demonic Strategies To Poison The Church

By Jared Moore on Jul 31, 2025

Written as a fictional demonic training manual, this piece exposes 20 subtle tactics used to introduce heresy into churches, from redefining love to weaponizing crowd size as a measure of faithfulness.

Scripture: Genesis 45:14-21, Ephesians 6:12, 2 Corinthians 11:14, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Galatians 1:8  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, Culture, CS Lewis, screwtape letters, heretic, preaching, culture  (view more)  (view less)