How do you start planning your message? Do you focus on the conclusion first? The opening? Do you look draw inspiration from a story or

Most sermons are missing a clear action step. Without this step, people will forget what they’ve heard. Your sermon needs a boring title and three other elements to stay relevant and have an impact.

Expository preaching. Expositional preaching. Exegetical preaching. Topical preaching. Liturgical preaching. There is no shortage of preaching methods to employ as you draft your annual sermon

In this resource, we will offer twenty-one strategies for overcoming writer’s block. We don’t recommend trying all these at once, though! Choose two or three that seem interesting and give them a shot when preparing your next piece of writing.

As a pastor, you’re always busy. You take care of staff, programs, and events, deal with emergencies as they come up, and officiate at weddings or funerals. If you’re bivocational, it goes without saying that time is even tighter. So here are some tips you can start applying today to really see your productivity increase!

You have enough to worry about without feeling stressed about your sermon!
Since the time of Moses, God’s leaders have needed to create messages that spoke His truth and helped His people take action…

If you take time to build trust with your audience, they will connect and resonate with your message in a deeper way. But how can you do that? Read on to learn eight ways you can build trust with your audience while you’re preaching.

Storytelling was an important part of the way Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God. Pastors, preachers, teachers, and leaders today can follow that example and use the power of story in their sermons.

For this episode of the Sermonary podcast, Josh Taylor sat down with Jack Hestar, the Teaching Pastor at Mars Hill Church to cover six tips for improving your public speaking during your sermons!

The sermon outline is your secret weapon in sermon preparation. If you love to preach but struggle with creating solid outlines, this post will help you understand the importance of a sermon outline and give you more confidence in the outlining process.