I read this post about seven easy steps to much faster writing and immediately saw the obvious transferability to preaching.

Consecutive expository preaching has become vogue in many churches. I come from a background where it was not so common. In the Scottish Highlands, pastors tended to preach what the Lord “laid on their hearts and minds” each week. They were definitely expository sermons, yes, but they were not part of a months-long-series of sermons on one book, verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter.

Yesterday I was privileged to hear my pastor, Foppe VanderZwaag, preaching on Job 1. It was a captivating and enthralling sermon with fascinating insights throughout, especially his positive (and persuasive) take on Job’s wife and children.  One of the things I…

I’m not for preachers practicing gestures to accompany their preaching; arm and body movements should flow naturally. However, I am all for preachers understanding and avoiding body-language that will not just offend the eyes but close the ears of their…

Should we work at crafting catchy sermon titles? Well, according to my friend Steven Lee, President of SermonAudio.com, the best way to increase sermon downloads is to improve sermon titles. We may not like it, but that’s reality. Unless you think…