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Serious Preaching In a Comedy Culture

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  • David P. Murray

Can I as pastor share some jokes from the pulpit? I guess you did not even think about this. So what do you think? This article calls us to think about the act of preaching. It looks at the preacher and the calling to preach. It calls for serious preaching.

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Expository Ministry: A Comprehensive Vision

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  • Dan Dumas

This article explains what expository preaching and faithful preachers look like.

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Experiential Preaching

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  • Connor J. Keuning

What is the difference between experiential preaching, practical preaching, evangelistic preaching, and doctrinal preaching? While this article focuses on experiential preaching as to why it is needed, it also shares some light into other forms. Being conscious of all these may be of value to the preacher as he prepares sermons.

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Evangelistic Preaching

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  • David P. Murray

This article showing that the rarity of evangelistic preaching can be traced to the preacher, congregation, world, and devil. It also gives reasons why such preaching is needed, with demonstration from different kinds of sermons of such preaching, and closes with the characteristic of preaching that aims for conversion.

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Why Expository Preaching?

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  • Josh Buice

Why is expository preaching important? It is important because it proclaims God's Word, grounds the church in God's Word, and shapes worship.

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Ten Things You Should Know about the Nature of Expository Preaching

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  • Sam Storms

What is expository preaching? How can you tell if you are listening to expository preaching? This article explains ten things you should know about the nature of expository preaching.

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Ten Things You Should Know about the Necessity of Biblical Preaching

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  • Sam Storms

Why do we need biblical preaching? This article explains ten things you should know about the necessity of biblical preaching.

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Ten Things You Should Know about the Demise of Expository Preaching

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  • Sam Storms

Are we seeing the death of biblical preaching in our times? This article explains ten things you should know that are contributing to the death of expository preaching.

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You Do? I Do! Preaching for Weddings

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  • David N. Mosser

A wedding sermon gives a pastor opportunity to place the wedding in the context of worship and faith, and to speak about the theological vitality of marriage. This article gives guidance for preparing such a wedding sermon by looking at the choice of a text, length of the sermon, and content of it.

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"Catechism Preaching" – Let's Love it!

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  • G. VanDooren

This article discusses the character of Catechism preaching, as showing the unity of Scripture on any one doctrine.

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"Catechism Preaching" – According to Church Order

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  • G. VanDooren

This article considers the practice of Catechism preaching, as it is called for in the Church Order of Dort. It draws some conclusions regarding the special character of a Catechism sermon.

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"Catechism Preaching" – Under Attack?

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  • G. VanDooren

This article considers the practice of Catechism preaching in Reformed churches. It explains some of the history of the practice.

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The Benefits of Catechetical Preaching

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  • William Boekestein

This article explains that catechism preaching kindles in our hearts the love for God. It enriches believers’ knowledge of Scripture, doctrinal knowledge, and experience of the Christian life.

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Preaching by the Book – Using the Lectio Continua Approach in Sermon Planning

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  • Hughes Oliphant Old

This article argues that the lectio continua approach is as effective in today's pulpits as it was in the pulpits of the early Reformation. Through examples and helpful guidelines, the article explains how to tailor lectio continua preaching to the needs of today's Christians.

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Old Hat or New Bandwagon: A Look at Lectionary Preaching

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  • Alvin L. Hoksbergen

This article considers lectionary preaching, a planned schedule of preaching that ensures over a period of time a balanced treatment of the whole counsel of God. It prevents preachers from overemphasizing or neglecting certain themes or parts of Scripture. A comparison with the preaching from the Heidelberg Catechism is made.

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Preaching the Funeral of an Unbeliever

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  • Nicholas T. Batzig

Preaching at the funeral of someone who was almost surely an unbeliever is very difficult. This article offers a few things worth considering if you are given such an opportunity: talk about the fall, death, and judgment, exalt Christ, hold out the hope of the resurrection, emphasize the role of faith, and stay away from eulogizing.

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Five Ways Pastors Spiritually Benefit from Preaching Expository Sermons

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  • Eric McKiddie

Expository preaching is of benefit not only for the church, but also the pastor. This article explains five ways in which this is so.

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Preaching to the Elderly

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  • Jay Adams

In a culture that is fascinated by youth, preaching to the elderly can be easily neglected. How does preaching to the elderly look like? This article answers this question.

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Distinguishing Things Which Differ

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  • W. J. Grier

What are the presuppositions that must govern the presentation of the gospel? This article shows that there are two: the holiness of God and the separation of man from God because of sin.

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Experiential Preaching

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  • A. N. Hendriks

Preaching is experiential when addresses the questions, cares, temptations, and struggles of God's people. Looking at the Canons of Dort on the experience of faith, the author show how God's Word can be preached in such a way that such experience of faith is given attention, for the upbuilding of the body of Christ.

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Adding to the Church: The Puritan Approach to Persuading Souls

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  • Erroll Hulse

What made the Puritans such great evangelistic preachers? This article shows that based on the conviction that God uses preaching to add to his church, the Puritans practiced evangelistic preaching. Their preaching was biblically consistent, free, flexible, and fervent.

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Must Every Sermon Focus on Jesus?

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  • Walter C. Kaiser Jr

Kaiser debates with Bryan Chapell and Sidney Greidanus on their views of preaching Christ from all of Scripture. He wants more clarity on what redemptive-historical preaching and a Christ-centred interpretation of Scripture should be.

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The Risks a Preacher Takes

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  • Phillip Jensen

This article declares that preaching is "inherently dangerous." What it means is that preaching that balances declaration with application, or information with challenge, is risky but necessary. The author gives seven reasons why he speaks in this way.

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Evangelistic Preaching: A Lost Art

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  • Conrad Mbewe

This article makes a renewed plea for evangelistic preaching.

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The Crisis in Expository Preaching Today

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  • Walter C. Kaiser Jr

Kaiser reflects on what he perceives to be a crisis in expository preaching. He first defines what he understands expository preaching to be, then analyzes the current problems, and ends with a proposal of what the focus and duty of preaching needs to be.

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Expository Preaching: Charles Simeon and Ourselves

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  • J. I. Packer

Expository preaching is the preaching of the man who knows Holy Scripture to be the living Word of God, and whose aim in preaching is to show the hearers what the text is saying to them about God and about them. It is this kind of preaching that has fallen on hard times, but from Charles Simeon we can learn how to regain it. This article explains.

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