When we preach the Bible, let’s not settle for a tips-for-life kind of relevance.

Whatever gifting one has, it is important to be a good steward of that gifting.  We should “fan into flame” what God has put in us. 

We seek to make that main idea so clear, transformative, evident from the text and applicationally earthed, that we will genuinely have preached the text before we sit down.

It is true that life change is God’s business and I can’t force it; but let us never grow comfortable with people drifting away from Christ.

Preaching is about exegesis and communication,pastoral care, leadership and discipleship, but it should be preeminently about prayer.

If you are asked to preach, prepare. Prepare humbly. Prepare prayerfully. Prepare as if “apart from me, you can do nothing”.

You have to think through the situation: who is preaching, to whom, what are they used to, what is the preacher capable of doing, what is the subject matter, etc. 

The preacher will have a lot more material after the exegesis than they are able to present in the sermon.

In the sermon, remember that some details need no more than a passing comment, while others are critical and central to the passage.

We have to fight against the flatness in our preaching to be as engaging as possible.

The spiritual gravitas and countless other personal and ministry benefits only come from diligent exegetical labour.

By reinforcing and reviewing a Bible book, the series allows for the teaching to sink in and be applied more effectively.

Let us preach the Gospel clearly as we carefully handle God’s inspired Scriptures with precision and integrity. 

Let’s keep prayerfully pondering how we can explain the meaning of the text in a way that is clear, helpful, instructive and not distracting.

Christmas services are just a few weeks away. Let’s take a new angle, dive into the Bible and preach with hearts spilling over.

There really isn’t a category of biblical preaching that is somehow good and helpful, but isn’t exegetical. 

It is not enough to become informed in preparation for preaching. That truth needs to soak into our lives and bring about some level of transformation.

The outline is an overview of your strategy for communicating the biblical idea relevantly to the hearts of your listeners.

Preaching is not simply study a passage, write a message and deliver it. We need to be meticulous in our study, but selective in our sermon.

We have shifted from authorities being respected, to not being respected, to being distrusted and even opposed.

The weekly emotional roller-coaster of preaching often has more low points than adrenaline highs.

Journeying alongside local churches in the Philippines. An article by Jojie Wong.

Dig in the text you have, honour the author by doing so, and give your listeners the best you can from this passage.

Let’s resolve, prayerfully and passionately, to always seek to really preach the passage we claim to be preaching.

No matter how well you can communicate or how clever you are, you cannot make the Bible say something better than God made it say.