I hope it highlighted the challenges, but also the joys, of our story, and echoed the stories of families like ours across the country.

Couples split up for all kinds of reasons, but let it not be because they didn’t get any  support from their church when they were feeling overwhelmed.

You want to be the most prepared preacher possible, but you must preach with a profound sense of your dependence on God.

Let’s talk about a couple of unplanned moments that tend to show up quite often in the sermon preparation.

Let’s think about two defining moments in sermon preparation that tie into the transition between passage study and message formation.

Every little detail of your preparation will build the character of the message, but the defining moments will fundamentally change the outcome of your process. 

Not all topical sermons are created equal. What is the difference? Whether or not it is expository topical.

The preparation of a sermon will be a privilege, an opportunity for God to mark your life profoundly.

The vicepresident of the Algerian Protestant Church has been convicted of holding an unauthorised religious worship and fined with around 665€.

Last minute preparation is not ideal, but it is possible and it is still better to prepare as much as you can, rather than not prepare at all.

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. 

The mayor of Grenoble wants to draw up a “more pluralist” calendar by replacing religious holidays with secular celebrations.

The decision was taken at a special online session with 40 votes in favour, 20 against and 2 abstentions. It won’t be finalized until 2025.

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.

I propose that to better protect the calling of the church and her central doctrine of justification by faith alone, there should be separation of church and state. By Simon Jooste  from Cape Town.

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”.

As the September general election approaches, the President of the Italian Evangelical Alliance warns that “some evangelicals are easily ‘pulled by the jacket’ in politics”.

Religious organisations denounced some points “attack” the freedoms of worship and association, but the Council ruled the law is “in conformity with the Constitution”.

ECPM now has four MEPs and brings together around 20 political parties. “We explicitly promote Christian values in politics”, says its President.

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.