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

The Christian life is not covered by a one-day seminar, it is a lifelong journey of preparation for eternity to come.

Hélder Favarin, evangelist and pastor in Spain, addresses some of the challenges of preaching to both Christians and non-Christians.

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. 

A new survey shows that “the vast majority of US evangelicals are largely satisfied with their church”. Outreach and in-depth teaching are the weakest of the 14 areas surveyed.

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.

Performance is unsustainable. At the same time, effective communication is worth some conscious and prayerful attention.

We need to include humility in our hermeneutics as a foundational attitude. The Bible is not subject to us, we are subject to it.

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

Perhaps our frustrating experiences are confirmation that our ministry is actually going according to plan.

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.

There are lots of things to be aware of between the beginning of the service and the sermon itself.

There may be some elements of a good movie that might teach us a thing or two about good preaching.

Sermon preparation may be a struggle, even a battle at times, but every moment is a privilege.

When we preach, we should aim to use appropriate force for each goal we are trying to achieve.

The Bible has to be in charge of the message, its main idea, its flow of thought, its relevance, its goals.

Too many of us who know God and the truth of His Word are too distracted by the communications of this world to really soak in God’s Word.

Good preparation should lead to more genuine, from the heart, textually solid and sensitively targeted preaching.

We help people with our preaching more effectively if we discern the implicit question being answered by the text we are preaching.