His Command: The Complete Series

Part 1. The high call of preaching: how can I be faithful to what God intends preaching to be and do? Convictions of biblical preaching / Haddon Robinson --
A definition of biblical preaching / John Stott --
A weekly dose of compressed dignity: how a sermon gives worth to the soul / Craig Brian Larson --
Overfed, underchallenged: a message must do battle for the will / Jay Kesler --
Theology of powerful preaching: nine beliefs at the heart of biblical preaching / Jay E. Adams --
Preaching that raises our sights: what sort of preaching, what sort of preacher, can raise the bar for low jumpers? / Crawford Loritts --
Leading and feeding: how preaching and leadership intersect / Jack Hayford --
John 3:16 in the key of C: why true preachers are worship leaders / Jeffrey Arthurs --
Growing in your preaching: the call to preach demands our very best / Bill Hybels --
Spiritual formation through preaching: four components of preaching that changes lives / Robertson McQuilkin --
Preaching life into the church: how God uses the ministry of his word to create and strengthen his body / Jeffrey Arthurs --
My theory of homiletics: three ideas shape my approach to preaching / Haddon Robinson --
Staying on the line: what it means to go above or below the exacting line of truth / David Helm --
History of preaching: assessing today's preaching in light of history / Michael Quicke --
Part 2. The spiritual life of the preacher: how should I attend to my soul so that I am spiritually prepared to preach? A cup running over: why preachers must find deep satisfaction in Christ / Dallas Willard --
The patented preacher: every preacher is a limited edition of one / Warren W. Wiersbe --
I prayed for my preaching: and got answers I didn't expect / Joe McKeever --
How does unction function? Probing the mystery of "the anointing" in a sermon / Lee Eclov --
Squeaky clean: essential areas of focus for the preacher who wants to do right / Kenton C. Anderson --
Required reading: why establish a reading plan? / Haddon Robinson --
Rightly dividing the preaching load: the benefits of developing a preaching team, and how one church is seeing it work / Larry W. Osborne --
Preaching through personal pain: if you have a crisis, should your sermons discuss it? / Daniel T. Hans --
A prophet among you: what it means to be God's minister / Maxie Dunnam --
Burning clean fuel: check the motives and emotions that energize your preaching / Scott Wenig --
Backdraft preaching: you've got to reignite the flames Sunday after Sunday / Mark Buchanan --
Why I pace before I preach: understanding the weekend panic / Walter Wangerin Jr. --
Preaching to convulse the demons: helping people find the hand of Jesus / Craig Barnes --
Holy expectation: how can we handle dynamite and not expect it to explode? / Haddon Robinson --
Part 3. Considering hearers: how should my approach change depending on who is listening? Preaching to everyone in particular: how to scratch where people niche / Haddon Robinson --
The power of simplicity: lives are changed when we merely read, explain, and apply / Chuck Smith --
View from the pew: how to hold the attention of the easily distracted / John Koessler --
Preaching to ordinary people: many feel like overwhelmed failures / Lewis Smedes --
Why serious preachers use humor: discernment for light moments with weighty purpose / John Beukema --
Connect hearers through dialogue: a two-way street can be paved with gold / Jeffrey Arthurs --
Self-disclosure that glorifies Christ: transparent preaching aims to reveal the light, not the window / Joe Stowell --
How to be heard: mastering five overlooked fundamentals of clear communication / Fred Smith --
Opening the closed American mind: preaching to skeptics / Ed Dobson --
Turning an audience into the church: transforming consumers into the committed / Will Willimon --
Preaching to change the heart: Paul's example is bold, courageous proclamation / Alistair Begg --
Preaching truth, justice, and the American way: on cultural myths and biblical authority / Rick McKinniss --
Preaching morality in an amoral age: how can you blow the whistle when people don't believe there are rules? / Timothy Keller --
Cross-cultural preaching: how to connect in our multicultural world / Rick Richardson --
Connecting with postmoderns: what to adopt, what to adapt, what to oppose in postmodernism / Robertson McQuilkin --
Preaching amid pluralism: elevating Christ in a culture that sees all religions as equal / Timothy Keller --
Connecting with non-Christians: how to analyze an audience when preparing for evangelistic preaching / John Koessler --
How to translate male sermons to women: and connect with what may be the largest half of your congregation / Alice Mathews --
He said, she heard: adapting to gender / Jeffrey Arthurs --
Connecting with men: how to preach to the tattooed / Bill Giovannetti --
Creating a singles-friendly sermon: how to preach to 49 percent of today's adults / Susan Maycinik Nikaido --
Preaching to preschoolers: a children's sermon is a time to feed their imaginations, not their egos / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre --
Hispanic-American preaching / Noel Castellanos, Jesse Miranda, Alfredo Ramos --
African-American preaching / Rodney L. Cooper --
Asian-American preaching / Matthew D. Kim --
Work wins? How your message can restore their soul / Lee Eclov --
One sermon, two messages: how to deliver one sermon at two completely different services / Wayne Brouwer --
The playful preacher: using humor and irony / Richard P. Hansen --
What authority do we have anymore? How to bridge the credibility gap / Haddon Robinson. Part. 4. Interpretation and application: how do I grasp the correct meaning of scripture and show its relevance to my unique hearers? Why the sermon? What is the eternal purpose in this weekly exercise in elocution? / Ben Patterson --
Getting the gold from text: how do you capitalize on the inexhaustible riches of scripture in your preaching--without sounding like a Bible commentary? / John Koessler --
Faithful first: the better we understand the text, the more trenchant can be our preaching / David Jackman --
God's letter of intent: six questions that reveal what God meant to say in a text / Greg R. Scharf --
Five bird-dogging questions for biblical exposition: how asking the right questions produces a wealth of relevant material for the sermon / Earl Palmer --
The rules of the game: seven steps to proper interpretation / David L. Allen --
Why all the best preachers are theological: everyone does theology. Do you do it right? / John Koessler --
Letting the listeners make the discoveries: scripture can speak for itself / Earl Palmer --
Conviction and compassion: it takes both toughness and tenderness to rescue people from sin / S. Bowen Matthews --
The inadequacy of "yes" theology: if saying not makes me narrow, so be it / Ben Patterson --
What great coaches--and preachers--know: how to use positive and negative elements with purpose / Craig Brian Larson --
Preaching that opens ears and hearts: the value of taking a more positive approach / Haddon Robinson --
Leading hearers to the tree of life: guiding believers into joyful obedience / Ted Haggard --
Fundamentals of genre: how literary form affects the interpretation of scripture / David L. Allen --
From B.C. to 11 A.M.: how to preach an Old Testament narrative with accuracy and power / Steven D. Mathewson --
The big idea of narrative preaching: what are the clues to interpreting a story? / Paul Borden and Steven D. Mathewson --
Life in Leviticus: planting this church, I spent a year preaching through Leviticus, and (surprise!) it worked / Rob Bell --
Apply within: a method for finding the practical response called for in a text / David Veerman --
Application without moralism: how to show the relevance of the text in a redemptive manner / Bryan Chapell --
Blending Bible content and life application: how to talk to people about themselves / Haddon Robinson --
Showing promise: you want people to obey God's commands. Are you giving them faith to do so? / Craig Brian Larson --
Helping hearers practice what we preach: how to avoid adding to people's burdens / Randy Frazee --
The heresy of application: it's when we're applying scripture that error most likely creeps in / Haddon Robinson --
Preaching for true holiness: why we can't divorce theology from application / Randal Pelton --
Less Joe, more Jesus: when preaching is too much about us / Joe Stowell --
Preaching that promotes self-centeredness: how to avoid stirring up the wrong motives / Craig Brian Larson --
The danger of practical preaching: why people need more than the bottom line / Lee Eclov --
Grace: a license to wander? The need for a balanced message / Bryan Chapell --
The rich sound of grace and holiness: integrating grace and truth / Kenton C. Anderson --
Part 5. Structure: how do I generate, organize, and support ideas in a way that is clear? Set free from the cookie cutter: how the text can form the sermon / Haddon Robinson --
Say and do: how to choose a sermon form that helps hearers experience the truth / Fred Craddock --
Connecting biblical content with contemporary audiences: a two-stage model / Mike Yearley --
Clearly: how to preach so everyone understands / Haddon Robinson --
Skills of oral clarity: clear writing and clear speaking are two different things / Don Sunukjian --
Questions that put muscle on bones: what to ask when developing an idea / Don Sunukjian --
Better big ideas: five qualities of the strongest preaching ideas / Haddon Robinson --
The power of sequence: should you use parallel points or sequential points? / Craig Brian Larson --
Outlines that work for you, not against you: how to write sermon points that follow the way people think / Steven D. Mathewson --
The tension between clarity and suspense: how to choose between inductive and deductive logic / Don Sunukjian --
Lifeblood of preaching: why emotions matter as much as outlines / Ian Pitt-Watson --
Alliteration downfalls: when sound-alikes turn good preaching bad / Don Sunukjian --
Modulating tension: how to maintain interest throughout a sermon / Craig Brian Larson --
The purpose-driven title: evaluate yours with four questions / Rick Warren --
Why should I listen to you? Principles of effective introductions / Kent Edwards --
Satisfying conclusions / Kent Edwards. Part 6. Style: how can I use my personal strengths and various message types to their full biblical potential? Determining your strengths and weaknesses: this self-test can help you understand your gifting as a preacher / Duane Litfin --
Interesting preaching: how to avoid talking in someone else's sleep / Stuart Briscoe --
Crafting an experience: how to engage listeners fully / Rob Bell --
Seven habits of highly effective preachers: how to speak so listeners can't forget / Craig Brian Larson --
The sermon's mood: the spirit of a message is like the tune of a song / Fred Craddock --
Teaching the whole Bible: six reasons to do expository preaching / D.A. Carson --
Dramatic expository preaching: sermons that are both stirring and faithful to the text / Haddon Robinson --
Verse-by-verse sermons that really preach: while God is certainly in the details, he is uniquely and stirringly at work in the organic flow of ideas / Steven D. Mathewson --
What makes textual preaching unique? And how to we use this sermon form, with its great rhetorical potential, biblically? / Steven D. Mathewson --
Can topical preaching also be expository? If handled rightly, the two forms can complement one another / Timothy S. Warren --
The biblical topical sermon: how to keep topical preaching truly biblical / Don Sunukjian --
Topical preaching on Bible characters: how to preach expositionally when focusing on what God teaches through a biblical person / Timothy S. Warren --
Topical preaching on contemporary issues: how to preach expositionally when a current issue is the talk of the town / Timothy S. Warren --
Topical preaching on theological themes: how to preach expositionally when a theological idea is the order of the day / Timothy S. Warren --
Making the most of biblical paradoxes: they offer a refreshing and deeper alternative to "how to" sermons / Richard P. Hanson --
Getting the most from the sermon series: how to take full advantage of the unique strengths of series preaching / Craig Brian Larson --
Trends in sermon series: how they are changing to keep up with the times / F. Bryan Wilkerson --
The compelling series: an interview with John Ortberg --
First-person narrative sermons: taking advantage of the power of drama and the pull of story / Torrey Robinson --
Biblical preaching is about life change, not sermon form: if people aren't enabled to respond, something is wrong with the sermon / John Ortberg --
Seven principles for reaching lost people: how Paul preached to skeptics / Dick Lucas --
Evangelistic preaching in the local church: how to preach sermons that engage non-Christians / Haddon Robinson --
Felt-needs preaching: how a sermon addresses the real need of the hearer: an interview with Duane Litfin --
Preaching to those ripe for conversion: an interview with James MacDonald --
How to preach boldly in a "whatever" culture: an interview with Greg Laurie --
Preaching with a leader's heart: both roles require our best / Jim Nicodem --
Critique of the new homiletic: examining the link between the new homiletic and the new hermeneutic / Scott M. Gibson --
Part 7. Stories and illustrations: how do I find examples that are illuminating, credible, and compelling? 3-D storytelling: how to make sermon stories come alive / Kevin A. Miller --
Preaching pyrotechnics: why some illustrations work better than others / Craig Brian Larson --
Preaching as storytelling: how to rely on stories to carry spiritual freight / Fred Craddock --
How to tell a moving story: the purposes of the beginning, middle, and end / Craig Brian Larson --
Bringing Bible stories to life: how to paint the scenes that engage modern audiences / Steven D. Mathewson --
Suspense: why everybody--including your Sunday audience--loves a mystery / Dave McClellan --
How to preach like John Grisham writes: I needed to move from principle to plot / Bill Oudemolen --
Good tension: the role of timing in telling a gripping story / John Ortberg --
Illustrating from pop culture: how to refer to popular culture in a way that is appropriate and connects with hearers / Kevin A. Miller --
Adapting illustrations so they fit you: six recipes for changing ready-made illustrations to fit your style and purpose / Craig Brian Larson --
Overexposure: transparent preaching is not without risks / Richard Exley --
Illustrating with integrity and sensitivity: seven questions for staying above reproach / Wayne Harvey --
Footnotes in the pulpit: how to credit your sources without distracting your hearers / Chris Stinnett --
Avoiding self-centered sermons: why limit the number of personal illustrations? / Craig Brian Larson --
Illustrating with slices of life: finding powerful sermon illustrations in the stories and scenes of the everyday / John Ortberg --
Power of everday-disciple illustrations: what kind of examples influence hearers most? / Craig Brian Larson. Part 8. Preparation: how should I invest my limited study time so that I am ready to preach? Why I pat the Bible on my nightstand: one pastor's greatest regret, and how he is making up for lost time / Ben Patterson --
Busting out of sermon block: having to speak doesn't always mean you have something to say / Haddon Robinson --
Centered: how prayer brings authority / Richard Foster --
A long, rich conversation with God: the joy of depending on the Lord for a sermon / Darrell W. Johnson --
A mysterious impulse to pray: you are preparing a sermon. You suddenly feel led to talk to God. What is happening and what to do / Lee Eclov --
Preparing the messenger: a strong delivery results from getting our whole person ready to preach / Gordon Anderson --
Lifted by the accompanying presence: an interview with Bill Hybels about how he experiences the Holy Spirit in the preparation and delivery of a message / Bill Hybels --
The hard work of illumination: why hearing the Spirit in the text can seem so difficult / Lee Eclov --
Heart-to-heart preaching: how to tap authentic emotions, both yours and the listeners' / Dan Baty --
Imagination: the preacher's neglected ally: when listeners are starving for a meal, creativity is what ensures there will be more than a recipe / Warren Wiersbe --
Preaching that magnifies God: it's not about taking down other gods, but raising up our own / Lee Eclov --
When is a sermon good enough? Sometimes you wish you'd had more time to prepare / Stephen Gregory --
Making the most of your computer: I can't imagine preaching without my electronic research assistant and sermon coach / Richard Doebler --
How to build a first-rate library: investing in quality, not quantity / Jim Shaddix --
What makes a sermon deep? The sources of wisdom preaching / Lee Eclov --
Before you preach
 questions you ask yourself now may save your sermon later / Ed Rowell --
Inspiration points: planning the high moments in a message / Lee Eclov --
Simplify: harnessing the power of economy / Charles Swindoll --
Using someone else's sermon: what is plagiarism? / Haddon Robinson --
Planning for a richer, deeper sermon series: expository preaching requires thinking ahead / Haddon Robinson --
Part 9. Delivery: how do I speak in a way that arrests hearers? The source of passion: focusing on emotion does not produce truly passionate preaching / Paul Scott Wilson --
Pathos needed: why reasonable preachers have regard for emotion / Jeffrey Arthurs --
Preaching with intensity: how to communicate so listeners feel your passion / Kevin A. Miller --
No notes, lots of notes, brief notes: the pros and cons of extemporaneous and manuscript delivery / Jeffrey Arthurs --
In the eye of the hearer: visuals that support rather than distract from the word / Kenton C. Anderson --
No voice, no preach: safeguarding and improving your voice / Emily Shive --
Eliminating my um, um, annoying pulpit mannerisms: I can't let personal quirks get in the way of the message / Kenneth Quick --
Reading scripture in public: how to present a good read of the good book / Jeffrey Arthurs --
The importance of being urgent: overcoming things that defuse sincere passion / John Ortberg --
The day I lost my nerve: and how I got it back / Lee Eclov --
Part 10. Special topics: how do I speak on holidays and about tough topics in a way that is fresh and trustworthy? When you don't look forward to special days: addressing holidays secular and religious with delight / John Beukema --
Preaching the terrors: when your text is bad news / Barbara Brown Taylor --
Preparing people to suffer: what expectations do our sermons create? / John Piper --
Preaching Hell in a tolerant age: brimstone for the broad-minded / Timothy Keller --
Preaching for total commitment: what does it take to convince people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ? / Bill Hybels --
Speaking into crisis: what we can learn from two pastors--Bonhoeffer and Thielicke--who ministered in terrible times / Gordon MacDonald --
When the news intrudes: what do you say from the pulpit about national crises and tragedies? / Eric Reed --
Redemptive sermons for weddings and funerals: when the sermon is the last thing on your hearers' minds / Stephen N. Rummage --
The landmark sermon: a clear word at the right time can keep the church from pulling apart / Jack Hayford --
You had to bring it up: every faithful preacher must sometimes raise controversy / Stuart Briscoe --
Preaching on contemporary issues: how to preach social trends and topics with wisdom / Grant Lovejoy --
Preaching that oh-so-delicate subject: speaking about sex clearly and redemptively / Bill Hybels --
Preaching sex with compassion and conviction: how to communicate the biblical view of sex without becoming Dr. Ruth / Craig Barnes --
The ever-more-difficult marriage sermon: in an age of divorce and remarriage, how can you preach graciously about lifelong commitment? / Bob Russell --
When the sermon goes to work: life on the job is too important to give it light treatment / Haddon Robinson --
Bridging the marketplace gap: how can we church insiders get a hearing from our people--the marketplace experts--about bringing Christ to work? / Andy Stanley --
Sermons on giving that people actually like! It's all in your approach / Bob Russell --
Part 11. Evaluation: how do I get the constructive feedback I need to keep growing? Well-focused preaching: taking a clear picture of your preaching requires both wide-angle and zoom lenses / Bill Hybels --
The agony and ecstasy of feedback: what sermon evaluations taught me / John Vawter --
Getting the feedback you need: how to invite a constructive critique / William Willimon --
A comprehensive check-up: questions to ensure you are covering the essentials / Haddon Robinson --
The science of surveys: formal procedures lead to more objective results / Virginia Vagt --
Lessons from Preaching Today screeners: ten criteria used by our experts to choose the best sermons / Lee Eclov --
Holding hearers captive: three things that make it hard for listeners to escape a sermon / Craig Brian Larson --
My worst and best sermons ever: how I was set free from the need to judge my preaching / Barbara Brown Taylor --
Learning from giants: although I can't just imitate great preachers, I can benefit greatly from their example / Kevin A. Miller --
Books that have shaped the practice of preaching: an annotated bibliography / Kenton C. Anderson.