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Three reasons I enjoy reading blogs about preaching:
1. I tremendously respect those who labor in the Word.
2. I myself teach, though not preach (but perhaps one day), and I find 98% of what they talk about is applicable to all teaching in the church.
3. That said, “teaching in the church” is not just a formal [...]

Pastor Joe Thorn has a set of questions pastors should ask “Before You Preach.” They’re also applicable to any time of teaching, in my opinion:
1. Does this message exalt the gospel of Jesus Christ?
2. Will people know what to do after hearing the message?
3. Am I saying anything that will distract from the point I [...]

John Piper on Preaching As Concept Creation, Not Just Contextualization:
As we think seriously about contextualizing the message of the Bible, let’s remember that we must also labor to bring about, in the minds of our listeners, conceptual categories that may be missing from their mental framework. If we only use the thought structures they already [...]

The Art of Manfishing
by Thomas Boston.
Christian Heritage. 104 pages.
ISBN 1857921062
Also available from Monergism Books, and online for free.
After finishing Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, I decided to follow it up with a jump back in time to 1699, to Thomas Boston’s The Art of Manfishing, also on evangelism.
Unlike Dever’s book, which deals with evangelism [...]

I finished up Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism last night. (Review coming soon… Probably. ;-)) I’m following it up with Thomas Boston’s The Art of Manfishing, a short book from a Scottish Puritan on evangelism, from around 1700. Here’s a crumb (emphasis added):
O my soul, then see that gifts will not do the business. [...]