Preaching and Sermon Resources

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...

This Study Guide provides an introduction to the practice of preaching. It is designed for people from various church traditions, in the early stag...

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...

Mike Graves begins this book with the question 'If preaching is intended to enliven the church, why is it killing so many ministers?' His answer? B...

Many pastors struggle with preaching the Old Testament. As a professor and pastor, Allan Moseley's vast experience and knowledge go a long way in h...

Teaching people from the Bible is a weighty responsibility for anyone. You may be speaking from the pulpit, or at a men's or women's event, youth g...

Now Available in Paperback! With this lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the m...

Feasting on the Word Guide to Children's Sermons equips church leaders and children's ministry volunteers to deliver children's sermons that are fr...

As a resource for preachers this latest book by John Cox studies thirty dreams and visions reported through pages of Scripture, from Jacob’s vision...

This is the second volume in the series from the pen of E W Rogers, who was known to his generation as a gifted preacher and Bible expositor, and i...