Tim A. Dearborn, Author at Preaching.com

Things to do when things aren’t going well

Browsing in the bookstore the other day -- some folks jog, others work out with weights, I browse in bookstores -- I came across a book with an intriguing title: 101 Things to Do During a Boring Sermon.Having n... Continue Reading...

Illustrations aid in understanding

Tim A. Dearborn

BIBLE -- Power to change livesYoung Jacob de Shazer was one of those who participated in Jimmy Doolittle's raid over Japan in April 1942. He was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese, and in the coming months... Continue Reading...

Sermon briefs offer ideas, illustrations

Tim A. Dearborn

April 2, 1989Oh to Be a Witness!(Acts 5:27-32)One of the churches I pastored in the suburbs of Chicago came under a half-million-dollar law suit. Two weeks of driving downtown to the Federal Court building, a s... Continue Reading...

Classic texts deserve valued spot on the preacher’s bookshelf

Albert Mohler

The renewal of the pulpit over the past several years has produced some of the best works on preaching to be seen in any period. Major works by James W. Cox, John Killinger, David Buttrick, Fred Craddock and ot... Continue Reading...

Preston Bradley: Preaching and Storytelling

Daniel Ross Chandl

Ministers are rediscovering that simple stories enrich sermons. Traditionally preaching has been considered as presenting organized themes supported with the sacred scriptures. This normative homiletical form b... Continue Reading...

Sunday After Easter: Coming Late to the Party

Howard W. Roberts

The party was last week. That was Easter. The pews aren't nearly as full today.

Good Friday: TGI Friday

Bill D. Whittaker

Do we have a TGI Friday attitude toward the cross? This Easter sermon challenges our cool detachment toward the cross: Keep it on the steeple. Put a bronze one on the altar. Hang one in the baptistry. At least let it get no closer than a nice piece of jewelry. But if we really undertand the cross, we know that it was our sin that put Jesus there.

Don’t Litter Your Life (an object lesson using cans, soft drink bottles, paper and other typical road-side litter)

Tim A. Dearborn

With the help of some empty cans, bottles, & old newspapers, this children's sermon teaches that when we disobey God, it is like scattering litter in our lives. God wants the very best for us, and sin keeps us from being our best. That's why it's so wonderful that Jesus came and gave His life for us

Preaching About Social Issues in a Darkening World

Michael A. King

There are preachers, perhaps, who speak to congregations filled with brilliant doctors of this and that who understand every nuance of complex social issues. These wondrous listeners welcome radical pronounceme... Continue Reading...

Easter: Easter is a Joke! (Text: Ads 2:12-24)

Donald Strobe

This sermon invites us to picture Easter as a gigantic joke, a joke played by God on the devil. While there are a lot of things in our world to be sad about, Easter proclaims that life is not ultimately a tragedy, but a comedy, a story whose ending comes out right.