The Expositor’s Workshop
Practical, text-driven help for sermon preparation. These articles walk through a simple, repeatable process, giving you concrete habits you can practise this week and build into a lifelong pattern of faithful exposition.
Read, Re-read, And Re-Read
The first work of the preacher is to live in the passage itself. This article shows how slow, repeated reading, with questions and observations on the page, prepares the ground for everything that follows in sermon work.
Read ArticleSpotting Repeated Words And Ideas
Good observation begins by noticing what the text itself keeps repeating. This article shows how to trace key words, phrases, and ideas so that the main burden of the passage starts to stand out on the page.
Read ArticleGetting The Context Right
Every passage belongs somewhere. This article helps you place your text in its paragraph, its section, its book, and in the whole Bible story, so that you never preach verses in isolation from their God-given setting.
Coming SoonThe Right Way To Use Cross-references
Cross-references should clarify rather than clutter. We will explore how to let Scripture interpret Scripture without turning the sermon into a tour of the whole Bible that leaves your main passage behind.
Coming SoonUnderstanding Typology
Typology shows how patterns and promises in the Old Testament find their fulfilment in Christ. This piece will outline how to recognise genuine types and avoid imaginative leaps that go beyond what the text will bear.
Coming SoonGoing To Corinth
The Bible was not written to us. We are not Jews in exile, nor are we Timothy or Titus. But it was written for us. We first need to visit Corinth to see what was written to them before we grasp what it means for us.
Coming SoonThe Melodic Line
Each biblical book has a central theme, a melodic line, that runs through its chapters. This article will help you hear that melody and see how your passage contributes to it, so that you preach in tune with the whole book.
Coming SoonCrafting Your What Statement
At some point you must answer, “What is this passage saying?” This will help you express the main message of the text in one clear sentence that can bear the weight of the sermon and guide everything else.
Coming SoonDrafting Your Why Statement
Preaching is not only about what the passage says but why it matters now. This article will help you connect the text to the real lives of your hearers so that application grows naturally from Scripture and from your people.
Coming SoonStructuring Your Sermon
A clear sermon grows from the structure of the passage itself. This forthcoming article will help you move from observations to a shaped, orderly outline that follows the flow of the text and serves your main message.
Coming SoonIllustrations
Illustrations should serve clarity, not comedy. We will consider where to find good illustrations, how to shape them, and how to ensure they reinforce the text rather than distracting from it.
Coming SoonIntroductions
The introduction should bring people to the passage, not delay it. This piece will explore ways to begin that create interest, surface need, and move naturally into the reading of the text.
Coming SoonConclusions
A good conclusion gathers the threads and presses the truth home. We will think about how to land the sermon with clarity, gospel comfort, and a clear call to respond in faith and obedience.
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