How to write a 3 point sermon? There are different ways to present God’s word to God’s people. However, the three point sermon has been a favorite for many ministers and lay people over the years. In fact, the three point sermon is a favorite of many congregations because they expand and explain one topic, … [Continue Reading...]
Sermon Preparation Tips
Top 5 Commentaries on the Book of Psalms
These are my top 5 commentaries on the book of Psalms. I have been a minister for thirty years or so and I have discovered many great … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare Expository Sermon Outlines
How To Prepare Expository Sermon Outlines: I have been preparing weekly sermons for about thirty-years or so and I still find the process … [Continue Reading...]
Sermon Tips
Top 5 Commentaries on the Book of Psalms
These are my top 5 commentaries on the book of Psalms. I have been a minister for thirty years or so and I have discovered many great commentaries on the books of the Bible. I will explain what types of Bible … [Continue Reading...]
Exploring The Book of Ephesians
Exploring The Book of Ephesians: This is an article that explores the treasure house of riches in Christ from the book of Ephesians in the New Testament of the Bible. The Book of Ephesians - An … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare Expository Sermon Outlines
How To Prepare Expository Sermon Outlines: I have been preparing weekly sermons for about thirty-years or so and I still find the process requires time and effect even though it is much easier these day to write … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write A Wedding Sermon
How To Write A Wedding Sermon: Over the years I have officiated at many weddings and I have written many wedding sermons from several different perspectives. The wedding sermon is an opportunity to share the … [Continue Reading...]
4 Principal Types of Biblical Sermons
4 Principal Types of Biblical Sermons: There are several types of sermons and various way of categorizing them. I find that the simplest way to categorize the principal types of biblical sermons is to classify … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare A Deductive Sermon
How To Prepare A Deductive Sermon: When you need to write two or three sermons a week, it is advantageous to have a set structure for writing sermons. I generally prepare weekly sermons with a deductive model in … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare An Inductive Sermon
How To Prepare An Inductive Sermon: I never really understood sermon preparation and structure until seminary and ministry. I learned inductive and deductive methods of sermon preparation at seminary but it wasn’t … [Continue Reading...]
7 Best Books on Expository Preaching
7 Best Books on Expository Preaching: I have accumulated many books (70 or so) relating to preaching or homiletics. The books I like best are the “how to” books on preaching. 7 Best Books on Expository … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare A Short Sermon For Beginners
How To Prepare a Short Sermon For Beginners? I am often asked to share short sermons for special occasions. How do I prepare short sermons? I follow the five steps below. How To Prepare a Short Sermon For … [Continue Reading...]
12 Best Books On Sermon Preparation Tips
12 Best Books on Sermon Preparation Tips: There are a variety of good books relating to sermon preparation tips. In this post I will note my 12 best books on sermon preparation tips which I have found useful for … [Continue Reading...]
7 Sermon Preparation Tips For Beginners
7 Sermon Preparation Tips For Beginners: I have been preaching weekly sermons for nearly thirty years or so BUT I have never stopped learning and developing the skills needed for preaching. These are my 7 sermon … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write A Sermon Conclusion For Impact
How To Write A Sermon Conclusion For Impact? “An experienced pilot knows that landing an airplane demands special concentration, so an able preacher understands that sermon conclusions require thoughtful … [Continue Reading...]
How To Preach A Sermon For Beginners
How To Preach A Sermon For Beginners? In this brief article, I want to expand and explain this subject in three parts: where I started, where you need to start and where to from there. How To Preach A Sermon … [Continue Reading...]
Why Add Stories To Your Preaching?
We all love a good story. In fact, we are addicted to storytelling. We spend endless hours watching stories on television, ipads and iphones. We go to the cinema with friends and family to watch a good story. We … [Continue Reading...]
Sermon Preparation And Structure
Sermon Preparation and Structure: After nearly thirty-years of preaching weekly sermons, I have found that basic sermon structures are fundamental to good sermon preparation. Once you learn and understand the basic … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write Topical Sermons
How To Write Topical Sermons! The best way to learn how to write topical sermons is to show you an example of a topical sermon. The example I will show you will be on the topic of prayer. How To Write Topical … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write Christmas Sermon Outlines
How To Write Christmas Sermon Outlines: The focus of the Christmas sermon should be on the birth of Jesus Christ and the redemptive nature of His birth. I usually create Christmas sermon outlines from passages of … [Continue Reading...]
How to Prepare to Deliver a Sermon
How to prepare to deliver a sermon? In this article, I want to look at how the preacher prepares to deliver a sermon. In other words, I want to look at how the preacher bridges the gap between the study and the … [Continue Reading...]
Figures of Speech in Psalms
Figures of Speech in Psalms: Hebrew poetry has a distinctive type of language that uses illustrative expressions known as figures of speech to bring warmth, vividness and vitality to biblical poetry. Figures … [Continue Reading...]
Types of Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry
Types of Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry: Poetic language in the psalms is set within the structure of biblical poetry. The most common and repeated structure is parallelism. In other words, biblical poetry consists of … [Continue Reading...]
What are the Different Types of Psalms
What are the different types of Psalms: To interpret and preach the psalms, you will need to know the categories into which each psalm is placed. There are 150 psalms and these various psalms are categorized into … [Continue Reading...]
The Exposition of Biblical Poetry
The Exposition of Biblical Poetry: I have been preaching weekly sermons for twenty-seven years or so. I have mainly preached sermons from the books of the New Testament. I have only preached through a couple of … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write a Sermon Introduction
How To Write a Sermon Introduction: Before we look at how to write a sermon introduction, we need to grasp the fact that there are several structural components to the sermon and the introduction is only one part of … [Continue Reading...]
The Six Structural Components of the Sermon
The Six Structural Components of the Sermon: Great sermons are made up of great parts. If the parts or structures are great throughout, then you will have a great sermon to share with your congregation. So … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare and Deliver Sermons
How to Prepare and Deliver Sermons: I have been preaching for nearly twenty-six years and I am still fine tuning the science and art of preparing and delivering sermons. When it comes to teaching my students, I have … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare A Sermon The First Step
How To Prepare A Sermon The First Step: The first step in preparing a sermon involves finding out what the passage of Scripture is all about. I generally preach through books of the Bible so I tend to outline the … [Continue Reading...]
How To Prepare A Sermon In 6 Steps
How To Prepare A Sermon In 6 Steps: John Stott said, “Preaching is indispensable to Christianity.” Martyn Loyd-Jones asserted, “To me the work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and most glorious calling … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write A Topical Sermon
How To Write A Topical Sermon: A topical sermon is one way to teach the Bible to your congregation. There are many subjects in the Bible which you can use to create topical sermons. For example, you may want to … [Continue Reading...]
Top 5 One Volume Commentaries on the Bible
Top 5 One Volume Commentaries on the Bible: When I studied preaching at seminary, I was taught to diagram the original text, to develop an exegetical outline from the diagrammatical outline, to develop a homiletical … [Continue Reading...]
Top 5 Books on Preaching
Top 5 Books on Preaching: Recently I taught a course on preaching to a number of Bible Seminary students. In the process of teaching this course, I recommended several preaching books to them so that they could … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write A Deductive Sermon
How to write a deductive sermon? There are many ways to package a sermon in order to communicate the message of the Bible with the congregation. However, the deductive sermon model seems to be one of the easiest … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write A 3 Point Sermon
How to write a 3 point sermon? There are different ways to present God’s word to God’s people. However, the three point sermon has been a favorite for many ministers and lay people over the years. In fact, the three … [Continue Reading...]
3 Steps to Understanding and Applying the Bible
3 Steps to Understanding and Applying the Bible – a Brief Overview! There are many ways we can study the Bible but one of the most helpful ways involves three simple steps: Observation, interpretation and … [Continue Reading...]
3 Steps For Better Bible Study
3 Steps For Better Bible Study: We can make many excuses for not studying the Bible like: I’m not trained, I’m not smart enough, I don’t know Greek and Hebrew, I just find it too difficult or I’m just a … [Continue Reading...]
4 Tips For Writing Sermons
4 Tips For Writing Sermons - When it comes to writing sermons, it is advantageous to follow a set pattern especially if you are writing weekly sermons. I personally found it easier to write weekly sermons by … [Continue Reading...]
What Makes A Great Preacher?
What makes a great preacher or teacher? The effective teacher always teaches from the over flow of a full life. If you stop growing today, you stop teaching tomorrow. The teacher is primarily a learner, a student … [Continue Reading...]
Is Sermon Structure Necessary?
Is sermon structure necessary? Do you need to spend valuable hours in the study putting together structured sermons? What do the scholars say? Charles W Koller notes that sound sermon structure bring power to … [Continue Reading...]
Can I Preach Without Notes?
Can I preach a sermon without notes? We all want freedom in the pulpit to preach dynamic messages to our congregations. But is it possible from week to week to preach messages without notes? In his book How … [Continue Reading...]
What Makes A Great Sermon?
What makes a great sermon? Is it the preacher’s personality or is it the preacher’s methodology? Yes, preachers need personality and yes preachers need methodology when it comes to preaching great sermons. … [Continue Reading...]
Sermon Preparation Tips
I have created this blog in order to discuss sermon preparation tips. In my many years as a preacher of the Word of God, I have deliberately defined the process of sermon preparation or what we often called … [Continue Reading...]
How To Write A Sermon Outline
How to write a sermon outline! Generally speaking, a sermon has three parts - an introduction, a body and a conclusion. The introduction usually introduces the topical of your sermon. If you are going to talk about … [Continue Reading...]
Topical Sermon Outlines
Topical Sermon Outlines! There are different types of biblical sermons. There are expository sermons, evangelistic sermons or topical sermons. You can write them deductively, inductively or a bit of … [Continue Reading...]
How To Preach Without Notes
Let me say at the outset, how to preach without notes is not referring to impromptu or extemporaneous preaching. On the contrary, how to preach without notes is a technique when mastered will help you preach with … [Continue Reading...]
The Difference Between Hermeneutics and Exegesis
The Difference Between Hermeneutics and Exegesis! When it comes to the interpretive process, it is essential to understand the four main terms used in the field of study. When you understand these four terms, you … [Continue Reading...]