Articles on Great Preaching
For most of church history the sermon was the main event, and some sermons changed the world. These readings are about the preached word — the great preaching of the past and how to read it today. They open up why a sermon by Whitefield or Spurgeon still burns on the page, what made these preachers, and how ordinary readers can feast on preaching centuries later. They are for anyone who loves a strong sermon, and for preachers looking to sit at the feet of masters. Each short reading points you on to the sermons themselves — the full text, free — worth reading aloud.
Explore books, sermons and scripture on this topic →How Do You Know If God Is Calling You to Ministry?
Wondering whether God is calling you to ministry? Here are the marks of a genuine call — inward desire, godly character, and the confirmation of the church — tested against Scripture.
8 min readWhat Makes a Godly Leader?
Biblical leadership looks nothing like the world's. Here is what makes a godly leader — servanthood, humility, character, and dependence on God — drawn from Scripture and the great pastoral classics.
8 min readSinners in the Hands of an Angry God: What Edwards Actually Said
A summary of Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: what happened at Enfield in 1741, what the sermon argues, what people get wrong about it, and how to read it today — with the full text free.
10 min readWhat Is the Church?
The church is not a building but a people — the body of Christ, the family of God, and the bride he died to win. Here is what the Bible says the church is, and why you need it.
8 min readReligious Affections: How to Tell Real Faith from Counterfeit
A plain guide to Jonathan Edwards’s Religious Affections: why he wrote it after the Great Awakening, the signs that prove nothing, the twelve marks of true grace, and how to read its hardest, most searching pages.
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