Practical Preaching Advice for Pastors and Lay Preachers #28

5 Questions to Ask before Using Video Venue Preaching

While many churches use video venue to great effect, I have not seen as many people thinking through its implications. In this article, I want to raise five questions that churches should wrestle with before using video preaching. Read More

Why Your Sermons Should Address Believers and Unbelievers [Video]

In biblical preaching, you aim to mature the believer, you aim to arrest the unbeliever, and you aim to glorify God by bringing his Word. Watch Video or Read Transcript

Are Your Christmas Sermons Predictable?

Here are six ways to help you recognize whether you’re in a predictable preaching rut.... Read More

Pastors: Preach, Don't Rant

Pastors are called to preach sermons, not deliver rants. Too often God’s people are subjected to the latter, but it is the former they truly need. This distinction struck me several years ago while co-preaching a conference with several other pastors. Read More

3 Things People Hate to Tell You About Your Preaching

Not everyone will tell you how they feel about your preaching, even though it could be most helpful if they did. However, they often express how they feel to their mates or closest friends. Undoubtedly, they’d have several good things to say, but they might also express a few frustrations. Listen and learn from those frustrations, and you’ll be a better preacher. Read More

Five Common Ways Preachers Overcome Sermon Blocks [Podcast]

Sunday comes every week for a pastor. And that means a sermon needed nearly every week. Today, Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe discuss how to combat sermon block if and when that happens. Listen Now

Preachers Need to Be Catechized, Too

With the recent success of The New City Catechism, catechisms appear to be back in style. Recent books like Mark Jones’s Faith. Hope. Love. have also been structured around the question-and-answer catechism format. New from Crossway is another kind of catechism, The Preacher’s Catechism, by British pastor Lewis Allen. Read More

Trends in the Number of Weekends a Pastor Preaches Each Year [Podcast]

Preaching trends are changing in churches. Today, Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe look at why many preachers are preaching less every year and why that’s a good thing. Listen Now