Tim A. Dearborn, Author at Preaching.com

Evaluating the Delivery of Your Sermon<br/>(Fourth of Five Parts)

What does a sermon have in common with a performance by Marcel Marceau? More than you might think. What the mime artist does is to bring the inner vision of his thoughts and feelings to outward expression.The S... Continue Reading...

Preaching to the Power Brokers

Browning Ware

A minister desiring to preach to the power brokers should grab a mirror and get with it. No person has more power than that available to a preacher of the gospel of Christ.Preaching, however, is not necessarily... Continue Reading...

Evangelism: The Evangelist as … The Rebel Love (Text: II Samuel 15:1-5, 18:5-9, 14, 33)

Calvin Miller

Evangelism: The Evangelist as ... The Rebel Love (Text: II Samuel 15:1-5, 18:5-9, 14, 33)

Faith: Why Doesn’t God Do Something? (Text: Mark Chapter 15 — Selected Verses)

Gary Fenton

Many Christians will not make a total commitment -- or will make only a shallow commitment -- until God does something miraculous. As a result they often run from church to church, from worship style to worship style, waiting for the miraculous to happen so that they will know that God is real.

Singing the Bookshelf Blues

Michael Duduit

Any minister who has ever moved from one home or office to another knows the scourge of every ministerial move: packing and unpacking the books.My move from Louisville to Birmingham at the beginning of 1987 inc... Continue Reading...

Outlines offer helpful sermon starters

Tim A. Dearborn

May 3, 1987Redeemed by An Everlasting Love(I Peter 1:17-23)If you are aware of the mood of the country now, you know that we are in a time of personal insecurity, self doubt and disappointment. Psychology Today... Continue Reading...

John Wesley: Plain truth for plain people

John Bishop

What were the elements of John Wesley's power as a preacher? One can discover some of them in his printed sermons, of which he said: "I design plain truth for plain people. I labor to avoid all words which are ... Continue Reading...

Play Ball! (an object lesson using a baseball)

Tim A. Dearborn

When you first start playing baseball, standing at bat can be a scary thing. But every star baseball player started in that same place and only got better with practice and help from others. According to this children's sermon, lots of things in life are like that, but with the help of God...

Book shares insights on pulpit variety

Albert Mohler

Harold Freeman, Variety in Biblical Preaching: Innovative Techniques and Fresh Forms (Waco: Word Books, 1986), 207 pp., $12.95, cloth.The task of translating the timeless into the timely will always be with us.... Continue Reading...

God’s Vacation

Tim A. Dearborn

Do you know who never goes on vacation? God never takes a vacation from loving us, caring for us, keeping our world running, looking after our needs. This beginning-of-summer children's sermon teaches kids that we are completely dependent on the never-stopping power and love of God.