Sermon Preparation

Recommended Resource: Preaching & Preachers

Preaching and Preachers by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones “For over 30 years, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones ministered at Westminster Chapel in […]

Pastors Center

Episode 155: Small Preaching with Dr. Jonathan Pennington

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

A Week in the Life of Sermon Preparation: Using Lectio Divina  

Preparing a sermon each week is a deeply spiritual endeavor that requires more than just intellectual engagement; it […]

Steve Tillis

Episode 152: Prayer in the Preaching Process

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

10 Questions to Ask in Your Sermon Preparation This Week

Pastors, I know from experience that sermon preparation is seldom easy—and I don’t want to add any stress […]

Chuck Lawless

Episode 45: Pastors and Preaching Without Notes

Notes or no notes? In this week’s episode of Pastor Matters, Ronjour and Brandon discuss pastors and preaching without notes.

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

Episode 18: Pastors and Sermon Preparation

In this episode of Pastor Matters, Ronjour and Brandon discuss the process of sermon preparation.What are good sermon prep practices? When should pastors refer to commentaries? How much time should pastors dedicate to preparing sermons each week? Tune in to hear our answers to these questions and many more!

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

Episode 8: Pastors and the “Big Idea”

What’s the big idea!!? Should pastors seek a connection in the details of the text, or should they be content to teach the "points" of the text instead? Is there a unity within a text's message?Join Ronjour Locke and Brandon Ward this week as they discuss the benefits (and challenges) to the big idea approach to preaching.

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

Pastor, Remember to Apply

In Chapter 15 of Engaging Exposition, Danny Akin makes this statement, “Exposition that is faithful to Scripture will […]

Nick Decker

Praying God’s Purpose for the Text

You know the importance of praying for your sermon—or at least you should, because prayer-less preaching is powerless preaching. But, even though you believe this, my guess is that you sometimes try to “pray yourself hot,” but barely mange to “pray yourself lukewarm.” I know I do. I believe we can learn from the laser when it comes to praying ourselves hot.

Quentin Self