Some readers have asked me for a step-by-step plan for sermon preparation. A few years ago, a younger (and rather “wooden”) David Murray made a couple of 30 minute videos on this subject. They flowed out of “Moving from Text…
Some readers have asked me for a step-by-step plan for sermon preparation. A few years ago, a younger (and rather “wooden”) David Murray made a couple of 30 minute videos on this subject. They flowed out of “Moving from Text…
There is no secret behind powerful preaching – apart from secret prayer. The biggest mistake we can make as preachers is to think that we can learn to preach powerfully from books, from seminars, or from lectures on preaching. No,…
I started a lecture this week on “Electronic resources for sermon preparation.” That could be a never-ending lecture. However I tried to limit the resources to what would be most useful to first-year students and those just starting to preach.…
Yesterday on Reformation 21 Paul Levy offered some helpful comments on the need for preachers to accept criticism. But how should sermons be critiqued? Puritan Reformed Seminary’s Practice Preaching class begins again next week. In this class a student preaches in front…
We have over 20 students in our first-year preaching class at Puritan Reformed Seminary. They come from all over the world. And they all want to excel in preaching. They are keen and enthusiastic to learn. One thing they do…
Nick Morgan, President of Public Words Inc, says that most presentations fail because the presenter didn’t prepare well enough in two ways. And these two errors are so common and so important that he has written “Two Rules for Preparing a…