Preachers: Make Your Sermon Both Accurate and Impactful

As preachers, we want our sermons to be both accurate and impactful—true to the text and helpful to our hearers. By God’s grace, we want to see biblical information produce spiritual transformation. But we’ve learned, this doesn’t happen easily or automatically. We’ve all preached sermons that were theologically correct but still never seemed to connect. Truth was explained, but hearts weren’t engaged. The question is: how do we prepare sermons that are doctrinally solid and spiritually life-shaping? One way is to have the main points in our message do double duty. We craft them to both explain biblical truth and...