Preaching Source

These are some of the most useful online preaching resources found on the web, all organized under the following headings:

• Preaching Courses
• Basics Of Preaching
• Exegesis
• Expository Preaching
• Commentaries
• Introduction
• Structure
• Delivery of A Sermon
• Using Notes
• Application
• Illustration
• Old Testament Preaching
• Evangelistic Preaching
• Evaluating Preaching

PREACHING COURSES

1. Don Carson’s Lectures On Preaching
2. Fundamentals Of Expository Preaching – MacArthur and Lawson
3. Derek Tidball Lectures on Preaching – Justin Taylor
4. Richard Gaffin Lectures: Reformed Hermeneutics – Justin Taylor
5. Tim Keller’s New Lectures On Preaching
6. How Sermons Work: David Murray’s Video Lectures on Preaching

BASICS OF PREACHING

1. Top 10 Books on Preaching
2. John Stott On Preparing A Sermon
3. What You’ll Never Hear About Preaching In Seminary
4. How Do You Define Preaching? Pure Church by Thabiti Anyabwile
5. John Wesley’s 12 Rules For Preachers
6. Praying During Sermon Preparation | Ordinary Pastor
7. A Classical Analysis of Puritan Preaching – Reformation21
8. Preaching and Sermon Preparation – Reformed Forum
9. Things I’ve Learned Along the Way… | H.B. Charles Jr.
10. Four Rules for Preachers – Justin Taylor
11. Ed Stetzer – Preaching “One-Time” Sermons
12. 8 rules for preachers from Luther – Reformation21 Blog
13. Preachers on Preaching | The Cripplegate
14. Reflections on Great Bible Teaching (Part 1, Part 2)
15. 40 Lessons I’ve Learned About Preaching After My 400th Sermon | Pastoralized
16. Sermon preparation – Ray Ortlund
17. 6 Bullet Points on Preaching | Challies Dot Com
18. The Centrality Of Preaching | RBC
19. Four Easy (and often overlooked) Tips that Could Improve Your Preaching | Ordinary Pastor
20. Ligon Duncan on Lloyd-Jones – Kevin DeYoung
21. 10 steps to better preaching | Mission-minded Church | Sydneyanglicans.net
22. Don’t Strive To Be a Great Preacher – Reformation21 Blog
23. Josh Moody on Preaching – Justin Taylor
24. Paul Washer on Homiletics | The Cripplegate
25. Help in Preaching the Hardest Sermons – Justin Taylor
26. Principles for preaching « The Wanderer
27. 7 Ways to Preach a Lousy Sermon by Ken Collins -SermonCentral.com
28. 7 Marks of Great Preaching by David Lose -SermonCentral.com
29. Practical Tips for Expository Preachers | Crossway
30. Urban Legends: The Preacher’s Edition: Kingdom People
31. How Shall They Hear Without a Preacher? – Reformation21
32. What is Homiletics? on Vimeo
33. YouTube – What is Redemptive-Historical Preaching?
34. How to Think of Sermon Preparation and Delivery Like a Three-Course Meal – Justin Taylor
35. Practical Questions On Preaching | Proclamation Trust
36. Greg Beale on Preaching
37. Gospel-Centered Preaching: Kingdom People
38. Preaching that Paints the Shedding of Christ’s Blood – Feeding on Christ
39. The Imperative of the Indicative: Preaching Christ from the Gospels
40. An Outline for a Process of Sermon Preparation – Justin Taylor
41. From Text To Sermon (Video) | HeadHeartHand
42. Normal sermon prep? Really? | HeadHeartHand
43. Six steps of sermon preparation | HeadHeartHand
44. What Does It Mean To “Preach Christ?” |HeadHeartHand
45. 8 Lessons I Learned About Preaching From Painting My Kitchen | HeadHeartHand
46. The secret to powerful preaching | HeadHeartHand
47. What Is Preaching? | HeadHeartHand
48. Dying To Preach | HeadHeartHand
49. Six Keys To Excellence In Preaching | HeadHeartHand
50. Tell Them One Thing | HeadHeartHand
51. Great preachers are great listeners (and lovers) | HeadHeartHand
52. God Blesses Beta Sermons | HeadHeartHand
53. A preacher who dreads sermon preparation? | HeadHeartHand
54. Sermon Eurekas | HeadHeartHand
55. White Space For Preachers | HeadHeartHand
56. 10 Pointers for Young Preachers | Biblical Preaching
57. Faithful Expository Preaching Is Christ-Centered Preaching | Prince on Preaching
58. What to Know When You Are the Guest PreacherPreach Truth – Better
59. 5 Radars Every Preacher Needs | Biblical Preaching
60. Spurgeon on Expositional Reading and Teaching in the Worship Service? – Feeding on Christ
61. The 5 Most Frustrating Things Pastors Do | ChurchPastor.com
62. 4 Reasons Why Some Preachers Get Better and Others Don’t by Hershael York -SermonCentral.com
63. 10 Lessons I Learned From My Mistakes in Preaching – Justin Taylor
64. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Preachers – ThomRainer.com
65. A Preaching Confession | Gentle Reformation
66. Don’t Outsource Your Sermon Prep
67. Four Things To Keep In Mind For Your “Last Sermon” – Feeding on Christ
68. The Best Way to Improve Your Preaching – Borrowed Light
69. 8 Ways You Might Be Losing People in Your Sermons
70. Preparing for the pulpit – Reformation21 Blog
71. Moore to the Point – What Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Preaching
72. The Role of the Imagination in Good Preaching – Justin Taylor
73. A Key Sign that You Are Maturing as a Preacher | Canon Fodder
74. Sermon Prep for the Bivocational Pastor | PhilipNation.net
75. 21 Skills of Great Preachers | JoshuaReich.org
76. 4 Sermon Types to Avoid by Derek Thomas | Ligonier Ministries Blog
77. Getting Through a Preaching Slump – Pure Church by Thabiti Anyabwile

EXEGESIS

1. 10 Questions For Expositors – Brian Croft
2. 10 Tips From Wayne Grudem On Bible Interpretation
3. Pointers for Preaching Epistles Effectively(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
4. The dilemma of preaching and hearing God’s word | The Briefing
5. Preaching and Word Studies(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
6. Extended Gestation | Biblical Preaching
7. The Peculiar Pleasure of Difficult Sermons « unashamed
8. Meditate Your Way To A More Creative Mind | Fast Company
9. BibleX: Five Crucial Sermon Questions
10. Snapshot Sermons | HeadHeartHand
11. Dangerous dissection | HeadHeartHand
12. 7 types of preacher’s block (and what to do about them) | HeadHeartHand
13. Sermon prep and the chemistry of fear | HeadHeartHand
14. 7 easy steps to much faster sermon prep | HeadHeartHand
15. Catchy sermon titles? | HeadHeartHand
16. How to Write Better Sermon Titles – Pro Preacher
17. What will I preach on? | HeadHeartHand
18. Investing In Sermon Titles | HeadHeartHand
19. 10,000 Hours to a Great Sermon? | HeadHeartHand
20. Overcoming Preacher’s Block | Biblical Preaching
21. Eight Traits of Good Teaching | Desiring God
22. Top 20 Christ-Centered Expository Preaching Checklist « Prince on Preaching Prince on Preaching
23. Reading and Preaching the Text in Context – Feeding on Christ
24. BibleX: Suggestions for Crafting Message Statements
25. Pyromaniacs: Preaching Proverbs 6 — introduction and overview (#1)
26. Pyromaniacs: Preaching Proverbs 6 — getting started (#2)
27. Pyromaniacs: Preaching Proverbs 6 — getting in shape to preach (#4)
28. God’s Word is most powerful in context | The Briefing
29. Koinonia: Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — The Art and Force of Ps 119:1-8: Part 3
30. Koinonia: My Advice to Students — Van Pelt Shares Solid Languages Advice He Got and Wished He Got
31. How NOT To Use Strong’s Concordance
32. Scripture Tools for Every Person (STEP): A New Free Online Bible Study Resource. – Justin Taylor
33. Credo Magazine » D. A. Carson on Biblical Exegesis
34. 7 Ways to Do a Bad Word Study. | Scribblepreach
35. Disciple-Making and Sentence Diagramming [Compilation + PDF] | Tim Brister
36. Borrowed Light: The Googlization of Bible Study
37. Typology Preserves Biblical Inerrancy Against Ehrman’s Mistake | For His Renown
38. Do Not Muzzle the Ox: Does Paul Quote Moses Out of Context? – Justin Taylor
39. Chiasms on the Brain? | For His Renown
40. Do You Make These 5 Common Word Study Mistakes? | Pastoralized
41. So What Is “Theological Interpretation of Scripture”? – Justin Taylor
42. Your Theological System Should Tell You How to Exegete – Kevin DeYoung
43. BibleX: The Exegetical Habit
44. Jesus Redeems a Psalm: What a Difference “Christotelicity” Makes!
45. 3 Steps for Interpreting Old Testament Pairings | Logos Talk: The Logos Bible Software Blog
46. ABC Study « Gentle Reformation
47. 11 Questions Every Pastor Should Ask : Kingdom People
48. Fight the Text Before You Flee to Christ – The Gospel Coalition Blog
49. ESV GreekTools – Justin Taylor
50. More on Quality Exegesis « Reading Acts
51. Women Weeping Over Diagrammed Sentences – The Gospel Coalition Blog
52. Can That Be Right? The New Testament’s Use of Old Testament Prophecy – Kevin DeYoung
53. Home – How To Do A Word Study Without Knowing Hebrew Or Greek – Azusa Pacific University
54. Word Studies
55. Feeding on Christ » Blog Archive » The Puritan Exegesis Project: William Cowper on 2 Cor. 5:5
56. Plummer’s Primer to Hermeneutics: A Must-Have : Kingdom People
57. Three Questions with Gerald Bray: On Three Questions to Ask of Biblical Texts – Justin Taylor
58. Koinonia: Three Views on the New Testament use of the Old Testament Darrell Bock, Walt Kaiser, and Pete Enns

EXPOSITORY PREACHING

1. Hearing Both Sides Of The Preaching Debate « unashamed
2. 7 Reasons in Support of Consecutive Exposition of the Scripture
3. 6 Advantages Of Consecutive Expository Preaching | NWBingham.com
4. How Expositional Preaching Protects Preachers
5. 9 Reasons Why I Preach Expositionally by Danny Slavich -SermonCentral.com
6. Maybe I Do Want Topical Preaching? | 9Marks
7. Why Should a Pastor Preach through Whole Books of the Bible…Even the Hard Ones?
8. Pros and cons of consecutive expository preaching | HeadHeartHand
9. ‘Expository Preaching’ – Time for Caution
10. Seven Qualities of Expository Preaching
11. 9 Reasons for Consecutive Expository Preaching | The Briefing

COMMENTARIES

1. Don Carson’s Best Commentaries
2. Joel Beeke’s best Commentaries
3. Best Commentaries
4. Best Commentaries: Top 2 for each book
5. Ligonier: Top 5 Commentaries on every book of the Bible
6. Desiring God recommendations
7. Tim Challies’ Top 5 Commentaries
8. How to Find a Good Commentary
9. 5 Reasons Why You Should Consult Commentaries | David L. Allen
10. A Short Commentary on Commentaries (Acts) – Kevin DeYoung
11. Using Bible Commentaries Beneficially – Gospel Growth
12. How TO Use a Commentary | capsministry.com
13. Why a Commentary?
14. Commentaries as a Ministry by Douglas Moo | Reformed Theology Articles at Ligonier.org

INTRODUCTION

1. The one sentence most public speakers get wrong | Articles
2. How not to start a sermon | HeadHeartHand

STRUCTURE

1. 20 Sermon Structures | HeadHeartHand

DELIVERY

2. Delivery Dynamics: Are You You? | Biblical Preaching
3. Delivery Dynamics: Will They Listen | Biblical Preaching
4. How to Transition Between the Points of Your Sermon without Losing Your Audience | Pastoralized
5. Neither Padded, Nor Dense | Biblical Preaching
6. Ways to Capture and Hold Attention, Part 1 | hopeingod.org
7. Ways to Capture and Hold Attention, Part 2 | hopeingod.org
8. The Missing Ingredient in Many Sermons | Ordinary Pastor
9. BibleX: Teaching vs. Preaching
10. (42) Ask RC- What’s the difference between teaching and preaching?
11. The difference between a lecture and a sermon – Reformation21 Blog
12. The Personality of the Preacher | Biblical Preaching
13. The Personality of the Preacher 2 | Biblical Preaching
14. The Personality of the Preacher 3 | Biblical Preaching
15. Becoming Well-Spoken: How to Minimize Your Uh’s and Um’s | The Art of Manliness
16. How We Are Judged by Our Voice in Dating and the Workplace | Psychology Today
17. Pastors: Don’t Just Quote but Be Quotable | Ordinary Pastor
18. When Presenting, Remember To Pause | HBR
19. Luther on sermon length « Expository Thoughts
20. How long should my sermons be when I preach? | Practical Shepherding
21. How long?
22. Pyromaniacs: On the Folly of Preaching too Long
23. Writing A Book – Structure
24. What Tone Should Preachers Aim At? – Desiring God
25. A Presenter’s Guide to Remembering What to Say – Harvard Business Review
26. How to Improve Your Public Speaking by Practicing Out Loud
27. Voice lessons | The Christian Century
28. Preaching: Simple, not Simplistic | NWBingham.com
29. Paradoxically Speaking: Simple Preaching
30. Simplicity And Love In Preaching
31. Pace and preaching | Don’t Stop Believing
32. A plea for profound simplicity | HeadHeartHand
33. Preachers wearing too much make-up | HeadHeartHand
34. The charity of clarity | HeadHeartHand
35. Notes from My Speech Coach
36. The Manner Is The Message | HeadHeartHand
37. 10 Foolish Obstacles To The Foolishness Of Preaching | HeadHeartHand
38. 8 Ways Preachers Harm The Depressed | HeadHeartHand
39. Truthful + Beautiful = Faithful |HeadHeartHand
40. Top 10 preaching mistakes | HeadHeartHand
41. David Wilkerson’s heartfelt plea for “anguish” | HeadHeartHand
42. Should We Practice Preaching? HeadHeartHand
43. Learning to preach from non-preachers | HeadHeartHand
44. The preacher’s vocal toolbox | HeadHeartHand
45. Overcoming The Frustration Barrier In Preaching | HeadHeartHand
46. Freshen Up Your Preaching | HeadHeartHand
47. How Not To Preach Boring Sermons | HeadHeartHand
48. 8 Ways to Become a Warm-Hearted Preacher | Biblical Preaching
49. The Cost of Dull Preaching and Teaching – Borrowed Light
50. Preaching Earnestly | Gentle Reformation
51. 4 Characteristics of Earnest Preaching | The Christward Collective
52. 88 Questions Because Delivery Makes a Difference – III | Biblical Preaching
53. Credo Magazine » Preaching Through Mental Fog (Timothy Raymond)
54. 20 World-Class Presentation Experts Share Their Top Tips
55. 5 words on extemporaneous preaching
56. Be More Specific Than “Points” or “Things” | Andy Naselli
57. 4 Characteristics of Spirit-Empowered Preaching
58. Your Default Preaching Tone | Bibli cal Preaching
59. Is Your Body Language Hurting Your Preaching? | Pro Preacher
60. INFORMATION OVERLOAD
61. Preaching with Authority | Gentle Reformation
62. Sermon Prep for the Bivocational Pastor | PhilipNation.net
63. Simple, Practical Ways to Improve Your Preaching | Ordinary Pastor
64. Let the Tone of Your Sermon Match the Tone of the Text – Trevin Wax
65. Deadly, dull and boring | The Briefing
66. How To Spice Up Bland Sermons | Ordinary Pastor
67. The Top Mistakes I Make in Preaching ← Julian Freeman
68. Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology: Top Ten Ways to Make Your Preaching Clearer
69. How to Preach without Putting People to Sleep – Justin Taylor
70. Transitions | Biblical Preaching
71. 6 Ways to Preach with Passion (Hint: Yelling Isn’t One of Them) | Pastoralized
72. Delivery Dynamics: Are You You? | Biblical Preaching
73. Delivery Dynamics: Will They Listen | Biblical Preaching

NOTES

1. Preaching Notes Series
2. Paper or Plastic? Why I hate handwritten sermon notes | The Cripplegate
3. Preaching from an iPad | Proclamation Trust
4. 10 Steps to Preach From Your iPad | Challies Dot Com
5. Adam’s Apple: Preaching from an iPad | The Cripplegate
6. Tim Keller on Writing a Sermon – YouTube
7. Sermon Notes | Proclamation Trust
8. Is Preaching Without Notes The Most Authentic? | Proclamation Trust
9. BibleX: The Value of a Good Outline
10. More Thoughts on Sermon Manuscripts « Provocations & Pantings
11. Moving Toward Noteless | Biblical Preaching
12. 7 Tips for Public Speaking Without All the Notes
13. S. Lewis’s Advice on Writing Well – Justin Taylor
14. Preaching Without Notes | Connected Kingdom Podcast
15. Preaching Without Notes (1) | HeadHeartHand
16. Preaching Without Notes (2) | HeadHeartHand

APPLICATION

1. Clarity and discretion – Reformation21 Blog
2. Preaching that Cuts to the Heart – The Gospel Coalition Blog
3. Pyromaniacs: Ways to profit from an expository sermon
4. Every Pastor is a Translator | H.B. Charles Jr.
5. Making Truth Memorable | Biblical Preaching
6. I preach for me
7. Cross-References
8. Preaching to the Mixed Congregation | Biblical Preaching
9. Applying the Sermon: Watch out for Pits, Walls and Stones « Preaching Barefoot
10. Preaching to the Heart | Biblical Preaching
11. Deeper Application – Blog – DashHouse.com
12. 5 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Preaching | Ordinary Pastor
13. How to Preach Like Phil Ryken and Duane Litfin Without Sounding Like Them | Pastoralized
14. 15 Ways to Improve Clarity | Biblical Preaching
15. Show Then Tell – Free eBook On Sermon Illustrations
16. The Christian Curmudgeon: Don’t Tase Me, Bro
17. Founders Ministries Blog: The need for discriminating preaching and the danger of its absence
18. A Call for Authoritative Preaching
19. How To Astonish The World | HeadHeartHand
20. Preaching with Bold Assurance: An Interview with Hershael York : Kingdom People
21. Don’t Be Afraid To Preach To The Affections
22. Preaching for Application – Justin Taylor
23. Should Preachers Show Their Work? Or, Should Our Preaching Train People to Read the Bible? | For His Renown
24. Preaching to the Whole Choir – Kevin DeYoung
25. Does a Sermon Really Change Anybody? « Preaching Barefoot
26. On Sermon Application
27. What Is Application? | HeadHeartHand
28. 8 Principles of Application | HeadHeartHand
29. Emotional Intelligence | HeadHeartHand
30. Preaching To All Ages | HeadHeartHand
31. Steve Jobs On Preaching | HeadHeartHand
32. Disarming Your Hearers | HeadHeartHand
33. Preaching And Application (Pt 2) | The Heidelblog
34. Gospel-Centered Application of the Word | Tim Brister
35. Preaching & Application 5 | Biblical Preaching
36. The Danger of Leaving the “Why” Out of Your Application | Pastoralized
37. Preaching Careful, Consistent Application: A Conversation with Jonathan Leeman – Trevin Wax
38. Charles Simeon on Discriminatory Preaching – Reformation21 Blog
39. Preaching for Application – Justin Taylor

ILLUSTRATION

1. Thoughts On Illustrations
2. How to Guarantee Your Sermon Illustrations Succeed by Eric McKiddie – ChurchLeaders.com 
3. The Value of Sermon Introductions: How to Stop Giving Your Congregation Theological Whiplash | Pastoralized
4. 3 Things Photographers Can Teach You about Developing an Eye for Sermon Illustrations | Pastoralized
5. 12 Reasons for Using Sermon Ilustrations
6. Why I Use Illustrations in My Teaching and Preaching by Erik Raymond | Ligonier Ministries Blog
7. What makes for a good illustration? | Blogging Theologically
8. 12 Steps to Strong Sermon Illustrations | Pastoralized

OLD TESTAMENT PREACHING

1. There’s a lot more here: Top 200 Online Articles on Preaching Christ From The Old Testamentand Top 70 HeadHeartHand Articles on Preaching Christ From The Old Testament
2. Top 10 Books on Christ in the Old Testament
3. Top 20 Online Resources on Christ in Proverbs
4. Top 70 Online Resources on the Psalms
5. “On Preaching Christ from Daniel” by Sidney Greidanus
6. Preaching Through Joshua | Preaching.com
7. Dale Ralph Davis on Preaching and Praying the Psalms « unashamed
8. The Apostolic Hermenuetic: Preaching Christ From All The Scriptures
9. BibleX: Preaching Amos
10. A Review: “The Word Became Fresh: How to Preach from Old Testament Narrative Texts”
11. BibleX: Reasons for Preaching Predictive Prophecy
12. Pyromaniacs: The sting of sending a sluggard: Preaching a single verse from a chiasm in Proverbs
13. To Cut a Long Story Short: Preaching Obadiah | the Cripplegate

EVANGELISTIC PREACHING

1. The Secret to Spurgeon’s Evangelistic Ministry by Steven Lawson | Ligonier Ministries Blog
2. Stop preaching only to the choir? | The Briefing
3. Evangelistic Preaching on Sunday Morning? – Justin Taylor
4. What is evangelistic preaching? | HeadHeartHand
5. 4 kinds of evangelistic sermons | HeadHeartHand
6. Why is evangelistic preaching so rare today? | HeadHeartHand
7. 4 characteristics of evangelistic preaching | HeadHeartHand
8. 4 (more) characteristics of evangelistic preaching | HeadHeartHand
9. What does an evangelistic sermon look like? | HeadHeartHand

EVALUATING PREACHING

1. Deep Preaching: Theological Matters
2. Moore to the Point – Good News for Bad Preachers
3. How should a pastor respond when he is complimented about his sermon? | Practical Shepherding
4. Teaching preaching | The Briefing
5. An assessment of preaching « The Wanderer
6. The Three Basic Forms of Defective Preaching « Building Old School Churches
7. 3 Reasons Why PowerPoint Preaching is Not Prophetic
8. How do you do expositional preaching poorly? | 9Marks
9. How To Critique A Sermon | HeadHeartHand 
10. How should a pastor respond when he is praised for a good sermon? | Practical Shepherding
11. BibleX: Responding to Praise