For a long time I have been interested in preaching, way back when I was a teenager in Nottingham my youth leader gave me the opportunity to preach a few times at my Church, and since having that door opened up to me I have spent a fair bit of time reading and thinking about preaching.
My view on what constitutes good preaching has changed a lot in those years, and as I have had more opportunities to preach my own personal approach to preparation and delivery has changed too. I make it a habit to listen to a variety of great preachers, but remain convinced that the most important preachers to me are the ones who preach at King’s Church Leicester on Sunday mornings and care deeply for them. I praise the time and effort they put into preparing and preaching at Church, and I love it when they show concern for their own preaching. When I remember (which to my shame isn’t very often), I pray for the guys who preach at King’s Church, and I thank God for every message they bring, whether it was delivered skillfully or not, whether I agreed with it completely or not, whether it moved me or not.
I am going to attempt to be disciplined and write a series of blog posts on preaching. There are a few different topics I want to cover, and I’m hoping to condense my thoughts on each of them into a few short paragraphs.