preaching & shepherding

What makes a true leader?

Is leadership a title? Authority? Charisma? Whatever gets the best results? Today more than ever, Christians need a model of leadership that is based on God’s Word, that brings God glory.

In Called to Lead, best-selling aut

In this complete guide to expository preaching, Bryan Chapell teaches the basics of preparation, organization, and delivery--the trademarks of great preaching. This new edition of a bestselling resource, now updated and revised throughout, shows how Chape

Author: Stuart Olyott

Christ was not a boring preacher! How wonderful it would be, says Stuart Olyott in the introduction to Ministering Like the Master, if Christian preachers throughout the world were ministering like their Master!

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The Moody Handbook of Preaching

Is the cross truly the center of your ministry?

Today the cross is sanitized. It adorns churches, dangles from necklaces, gleams from lapels. Yet in the first century the cross was a grotesque and abhorrent image, a symbol of evil, torture, and shame.

Convinced that knowing the Word of God is fundamental to preaching, John Stott here presents brief studies of five New Testament metaphors that characterize preachers: steward, herald, witness, father, and servant. In the course of these five studies, Sto

On Being a Pastor

Proclaiming a Christ Centered Theology

At the beginning of the twentieth century, James Macdonald of Edinburgh purchased a box of old papers which had belonged to a preacher of around sixty years earlier. The contents might have seemed of little value, but to some they were altogether priceles

David Murray writes in the Foreword: ’The minister’s soul is the soul of his ministry.’ I can’t remember where I first heard this saying, but I’ve never been able to forget it. And, having read this book, I never want to forget it. In these pages, Jim Sav

Handling God’s Truth Accurately—
Know What You Believe and Teach

How you interpret and teach the doctrines of the faith truly matters. This requires diligent study and “accurately handling the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).

The Shepherd as Theolo

"Dr. William Varner has written a wonderful analytical compendium of every significant Scripture pertaining to gender roles in public worship. Rather than cherry-picking the texts that can be easily spun to support one side or the other, he considers ever

Robert Murray M'Cheyne: Sermons on Hebrews

Appointed to Preach: Assessing a Call to Ministry

Lots of people who are involved in Christian ministry (whether paid or unpaid) find themselves having to step back from it. They have not lost their love for Christ, or their desire to serve him. But for one reason or another, they are exhausted and simpl

In this revised and expanded edition of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals that includes a new introduction and select all-new chapters, best-selling author John Piper pleads through a series of thoughtful essays with fellow pastors to abandon the profess