Preaching and Sermon Resources

Preaching is an integral part of every church service, and its purpose has always been to edify, encourage, and to emphasize the positive effects o...

People looking for a church home value good preaching most of all - as shown by a recent Pew Research study. While tasty coffee, edgy technology, a...

Expository preaching and African American style are partners, not enemies. This important and powerful resource celebrates the faithful, biblical p...

Poor Eutychus might have tumbled off his perch in Acts 20, but it’s humbling to notice that what took Paul many hours of preaching to achieve – nea...

"This book is a clarion call for African American preachers to think more deeply about the aims and ends of their preaching—namely to stop putting ...

"How do we preach in a way that affirms Christian theology while also honoring the insights of other faith traditions? ""How do we preach about and...

This book is the first collection of essays to explore the question: is there room for politics from the pulpit? In response to an increasingly pol...

To preach effectively in today's world, preachers need cultural intelligence. They must build bridges between listeners who come from various denom...

John McClure's Preaching Words highlights the most important ideas in homiletics and preaching, offering short explanations of these ideas, what sc...

Should women who preach, preach as women? Preaching Women argues that far from being a gender-neutral space, the pulpit is a critical place in whic...

Preachers can find help from many resources to get the text right, the structure right, and the delivery right. Preaching with Empathy aims to help...

While comedian Stephen Colbert was remarkably prescient some years ago when he introduced the word “truthiness” to our vocabulary, it was president...

Preaching to Teach merges the related functions of preaching and teaching, and equips the reader to accomplish both. Preachers stand up to speak ea...

This unique commentary helps preachers see how knowledge of first-century Judaism can help them avoid incorporating misunderstandings and stereotyp...

Preaching the heart of God, The place of PATHOS in preaching. Preachers are called at this time to minister to many whose world has suddenly chang...

The image of the kingdom of God has all but disappeared in preaching today. Here, David Buttrick critiques the state of the church, society, and pr...

This commentary for preaching Matthew, a companion to WJK's successful Preaching the Gospel of Luke, Preaching the Gospel of John, and Preaching th...

Ronald Allen and Clark Williamson provide a commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary Gospel readings, demonstrating how the lections are continu...

Preaching the Incarnation, a follow-up to the authors' Preaching the Atonement, offers a theological discussion of ten important Bible passages con...

For many years the resolution plot has dominated homiletical theory, made most famous by the 'Lowry Loop' - a staple of preaching theory for today'...

Preaching is the art of building a bridge in the hearer's mind from the ancient world of the biblical text to the realities of our daily lives. Thr...

Pastors face a perennial challenge in deciding how to treat special days in the calendar. For days marked in the church year, the challenge is how ...

In this engaging treatment of the Gospel of Mark, Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm combines biblical scholarship with a close reading of the Gospel text to meet...

Proverbs abound in contemporary culture and in biblical texts. But surprisingly, the use of proverbial wisdom is conspicuously absent in the contem...

In this accessible treatment of the major themes of the Gospel of John, renowned New Testament scholar Lamar Williamson blends the best of biblical...

This volume is a collection of some of the best of the hundreds of Preaching Points that the Haddon W. Robinson Center for Preaching at Gordon-Conw...

How can preachers preach biblically faithful sermons that move listeners to positive action? An author on the cutting edge of contemporary homileti...

This excellent resource provides help for ministers who must plan their sermons not only according to the liturgical church year but also in respon...

There are many books on the market that address how culture, race, gender, or economic status affect the way preachers preach and congregations hea...

In this compelling and hard-hitting book, respected preacher and teacher Thomas Long identifies and responds to what he sees as the most substantiv...

This book provides theological insights as well as practical sermon suggestions for preachers and seminary students. It treats the reader to a thor...

(Introduction by Herbert W. Lockyer) An exhaustive analysis of the significance of each type and metaphor and the practical application they offer ...

How can a preacher best address suicide from the pulpit?Pastors face many challenges. Suicide in a congregation is amongst the most heart-rending a...

Drawing upon a lifetime of experience as a New Testament professor and a persuasive preacher, Dr. James Earl Massey gives us a unique combination o...

In this new volume, prolific scholar Walter Brueggemann seeks to show Christian preachers how to consider the faith witnessed in several Old Testam...

Preaching Black Lives (Matter) is an anthology that asks, 'What does it mean to be church where if Black lives matter?'Prophetic imagination would ...

How can a person preach a word of hope and faith in a world filled with violence and suffering? Christine Smith says one must encounter and name th...

How can a sermon be shaped so that it conveys the reality of Scripture? In this innovative work seven homileticians explore new ways of bringing to...

By exploring the historical, theoretical, and practical elements of the tradition of testimony, Anna Carter Florence seeks in this much-anticipated...

Preachers Dare is adapted from Will Willimon’s Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale and is inspired by a quote from the great theologian Kar...

Renowned preachers and teachers (James Boice, Donald Macleod, Sinclair Ferguson, R. C. Sproul, and others) contribute to this volume on the preache...

Studies of preaching and preaching style have up to this point often focus almost exclusively on a western eurocentric understanding of good preach...

Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, and president of 9Marks, is widely respected for his efforts to build b...