Sermon Preparation

Sermon Prep: Not How Long, But Where?

Mark Jones
Jan 13, 2025
Many have strong opinions on the amount of time a pastor should take to prepare his weekly sermon, with many affirming that roughly 20 hrs is not just normal but advisable. We’ve probably seen pastors piling up their commentaries on the book they’re preaching on (with an almost obligatory social...

Sermon Plagiarism

Mortification of Spin
Sep 8, 2021
A very old and common problem in the pastoral world has recently returned to the headlines with allegations of sermon plagiarism lodged against the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Why is sermon plagiarism such a big deal? Does it reach beyond the simple theft of...
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Mortification of Spin

Expository Enough?

David Prince
Mar 21, 2018
Most preaching that self-identifies as expository is simply not expository enough. The basic etymological definition of expository is to expose the meaning of the biblical text.1 What is key to fleshing out that definition is rightly reckoning what one means by the word text . Can a particular text...