Tim A. Dearborn, Author at Preaching.com

Evaluating the Style of Your Preaching<br/>(Fifth of Five Parts)

Does it really matter how you say a thing as long as you say what you have in mind! The answer is simple, if what we are talking about has to do with a speaker who speaks only German to an audience that underst... Continue Reading...

Truth and Preaching

Michael Duduit

"This isn't a 'preacher story.' This really happened!"It may be the punchline of an old joke, but it's still enough to make many of us cringe because it strikes so close to home.There's something wrong when a "... Continue Reading...

Alexander Maclaren: A Great Expositor

John Bishop

When Alexander Maclaren retired from his pastorate, Robertson Nicoll said that he had altered the whole manner of British preaching."It may be doubted whether any preacher of the last fifty years has had a more... Continue Reading...

Illustrations bring life to sermons

Tim A. Dearborn

AIDS -- Danger growsThe World Health Organization predicts that the number of people infected with the AIDS virus would reach 100 million by 1990. According to USA Today, as many as two million people in the Un... Continue Reading...

Outlines offer sermon suggestions

Tim A. Dearborn

July 5, 1987The Kingdom Will Succeed(Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43)The planners hadn't expected such a large turnout for the "seminar." Jesus was teaching. They had to have "Professor" Jesus in a larger space to acco... Continue Reading...

Summer is time for ‘book break’

Albert Mohler

Summer is the season of rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation -- a season for meandering through the pages of those books you have set aside for pleasure and profit. Uninterrupted by telephone, tragedy, or trivial... Continue Reading...

The Transforming Power of God (Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17) (an object lesson using a transformer toy and a cocoon or butterfly)

Tim A. Dearborn

A Transformer can change from a truck to a robot and back again, but a caterpillar, once it becomes a butterfly, can never be a caterpillar again. This object lesson for children focuses on God's transforming power, power that makes us into a new creation.

Take Your Temperature (an object lesson using a thermometer)

Tim A. Dearborn

In the same way grown-ups sometimes take a child's temperature to check up and find out just how sick she might be, as we read God's Word every day, we get a regular "check up." This children's sermon talks about how God's Word and Spirit help us take our spiritual temperature.

The “Dark Side” of the Presence of God in Preaching (Fourth of Four Parts)

Wayne E. Oates

I was startled when I read the February, 1987 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry. The lead article is entitled "Self-Portrayal by a Depressed Poet: A Contribution to the Clinical Biography of William C... Continue Reading...

Freedom: Freedom

William H. Willimon

Freedom: Freedom