Matt Chandler: Our Authority to Preach From Sermon Connect


Matt Chandler: Our Authority to Preach

“If you don’t have an authoritative view of the scripture, you’re not going to have authoritative Bible-preaching.” Watch the video »

How Mark Driscoll Prepares His Sermon From Sermon Central

How Mark Driscoll Prepares His Sermon

“I find that prayer and listening helps me work through the harder parts of Scripture. I also use commentators and theologians to check my thoughts, but I always start with the Bible and prayer.” Read the article »

9 Tips to Keep Your Preaching Fresh on Special Days From Sermon Central

9 Tips to Keep Your Preaching Fresh on Special Days

John Beukema discusses the challenges and opportunities of providing your listeners with fresh content for holiday sermons. Read the article »

Preaching on the Run: 7 Tips for Bi-Vocational Pastors From Sermon Central

Preaching on the Run: 7 Tips for Bi-Vocational Pastors

“My sermon prep is no longer about how many hours I ‘spend studying.’ With this approach, I genuinely believe that every hour of the week is sermon prep.” Read the article »

3 Tips for a More Biblical Thanksgiving From Sermon Central

3 Tips for a More Biblical Thanksgiving

“In giving thanks to God, there should be no motive other than pure gratitude.” Read the article »

10 Ways to Half-Bake Your Sermon, Pt. 2 From Sermon Central

10 Ways to Half-Bake Your Sermon, Pt. 2

We all want to be “biblical” preachers, but are we really giving the text its due? Find out in the second part of this series by Peter Mead.

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One Thing That Will Make or Break Your Preaching in the 21st Century From Sermon Central

One Thing That Will Make or Break Your Preaching in the 21st Century

There is an item you need to be a break-through preacher—without this item, you will simply be a speaker. Read the article »

When People Leave: 4 Lessons in Rejection from Jesus From Sermon Central

When People Leave: 4 Lessons in Rejection from Jesus

When people leave for whatever reason, God’s got your back. What else do you really need? Read the article »

Gordon MacDonald: There’s Something Wrong with Our Pastoral System From Sermon Central

Gordon MacDonald: There’s Something Wrong with Our Pastoral System

Gordon MacDonald: “I think we probably need to totally re-define what pastors do in leading our contemporary 21st century church.” Read the article »

8 Reasons Why Some Churches Never Grow From Sermon Central

8 Reasons Why Some Churches Never Grow

Perry Noble: “Too many times, we become so concerned with offending people that we actually offend Jesus.” Read the article »