Preaching and Sermon Resources

There has hardly ever been in my ministry a series of sermons to which I have given more time, more pain and more prayer than I did to this series ...

The purpose of our lives is to know the God of the universe who made us and loves us. It is this purpose that biblical preaching meets through expl...

Despite the explicit proclamation in John's Gospel of the 'Word made flesh' it is hard to preach such an esoteric Gospel in a way which offers some...

This collection of more than fifty of Fred Craddock's sermons provides a glimpse of a master preacher at work. Amazingly, only one of the sermons w...

In addition to being one of the world's leading interpreters of the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann is a skilled and beloved preacher. This colle...

The book covers six major themes connected with the Christian hope. Enables the Bible teacher to teach with clarity and purpose.

The book of Romans emphasiss the wonderful scale and depth of God's grace. Christopher Ash leads us step by step to understand and communicate this...

Preachers increasingly see the need to deliver sermons that are 'dangerous' in a variety of ways: the way they challenge hearers' comfort levels an...

What can preachers do to help congregants navigate everyday life with the courage, imagination, and savvy it takes to testify in action and word to...

Stories are a powerful tool in the hands of a preacher. Used poorly, they can become the central focus of a sermon, usurping the rightful place of ...

Conflict stories appear throughout the Synoptic Gospels, and although they are familiar and dramatic, the stories are particularly challenging for ...

It's not just what you say, but how you say it. Good communicators know this, but it's often easier said than done. Teachers, leaders, and speakers...

Different generations communicate differently. If you are speaking across generations, you need to understand how different generations hear. Pasto...

This book provides a theology for social crisis preaching by arguing that Christian proclamation is the best prescription for the social crises in ...

This rare, never-before-published volume powerfully expounds a neglected book of Scripture. David Dickson carefully applies Lamentations in a time ...

More themed ideas for those preparing talks Every talk or sermon has to reflect the speaker’s own faith and experience of God if it is to communica...

A practical and comprehensive programme for Common Worship, Searchlights provides an abundance of inspirational worship ideas for all members of t...

We know of the preacher’s roles as both teacher and proclaimer, but Jeffrey Arthurs adds another assignment: the Lord’s remembrancer. The remembran...

This book approaches preaching as a theological practice and a spiritual discipline in a way that is engaging, straightforward, and highly usable f...

With Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament, renowned Old Testament scholar Walter Kaiser offers a helpful guide for preachers, professors, ...

John Calvin preached over 2,000 times, this fitting commemoration of his 500th birthday involved some of the world’s finest Calvinian preachers spe...

Written with the rigor and precision of a New Testament specialist,  Preaching the Parables provides a responsible introduction to understanding an...

In contrast with the widely popular interest in narrative styles, James Thompson shows that Paul's letters offer a different model for preaching to...

Renowned and beloved Psalms scholar James Luther Mays shares in this book some of his most influential ideas about the Psalms and shows the reader ...

Many sermons preached today lack the divine knowledge and spiritual understanding available only through dynamic expository preaching. In Preaching...

Worship--the central task of the Christian community--is the focus of this thought-provoking book. William Willimon moves from theological understa...

Should the pulpit be used as a place to address issues of congressional conflict? After first examining the nature of conflict within human groups,...

To author Edmund P. Clowney, biblical theology is not an academic discipline but a “labor of worship.” In this volume, Clowney explains biblical th...

In this book, scholar and preacher Cleophus J. LaRue brings together the voices of twelve of America's most influential African-American preachers....

Persuasive Preaching contains a valuable discussion of what persuasion really is, what the Bible has to say about it, how it is modeled in the New ...

St. Irenaeus, undisputedly the most important theologian of the second century, laid a firmer foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Both in...

An introduction to and primer on African American preaching.

Preachers face all kinds of obstacles on Sunday mornings A sermon that employs interesting and appropriate illustrations can help break through bar...

This classic book on evangelical preaching, first published in 1946, has inspired generations of preachers to strive for greater effectiveness in t...

Sermons of hope and faith for those who have lost both. Many of us struggle with doubt, uncertainty, and disbelief. The problem is not the struggle...

Pastors are constantly in search of ways to connect to their parishioners through their sermons,and one of the most effective ways to do this is th...

Contemporary preaching suffers from a loss of confidence in the power of the Word, from an infatuation with technology, from an embarrassment befor...

At its simplest expository preaching is preaching which allows the Biblical text to direct the contents of the message, by which the church grows a...

The gospel is powerful; we just need to speak it. In this very practical, short book from the Get Preaching series, Nigel Style reminds us what pre...