Preaching

Wrestling the Text

I don’t know how many times it’s happened. I pick a text as the basis for a sermon. I think I know what the text is going to say, but as

Sunday Morning Prayer for Preachers

This is a great prayer for preachers on a Sunday morning: Gracious God and Heavenly Father, I bow before you wishing that in this past week I had done my best to present

Lessons from Toastmasters

As you may know, we’re starting a new church in Liberty Village, Toronto. Liberty Village is an old commercial part of town that’s being transformed into a new community. I’m

Deeper Application

I have a problem with application in sermons. It’s often poorly done. Granted, this is because application is actually one of the hardest parts of preaching. I agree with what Haddon Robinson