Here’s my weekly round up of preaching related matters on the web that have caught my eye in recent days

Talking the Walk has some tongue-in-cheek Ultimate Preaching Rules

Thanks to Theologica for links to a series of talks by Carl Trueman on the person and work of Christ.

Pulpit Magazine has a great piece by John MacArthur on preaching faithfully to our present culture, based on Acts 17

Unashamed Workman brought us this inspiring quote from John Piper:

“Christian preachers, more than all others, should know that people are starving for God. If anyone in all the world should be able to say, ‘I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory,’ it is the herald of God.

Who but preachers will look out over the wasteland of secular culture and say, ‘Behold your God!’?

Who will tell the people that God is great and greatly to be praised?

Who will paint for them the landscape of God’s grandeur?

Who will remind them with tales of wonder that God has triumphed over every foe?

Who will cry out above every crisis, ‘Your God reigns!’?

Who will labour to find words that can carry the ‘gospel of the glory of the blessed God’?”

(John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, p 108-109)

And Irish Calvinist gave us a link to an equally inspiring video of Piper on the supremacy of Christ

Sharper Iron asks ‘Could we be more thoroughly expository if we added this element to our definition: that the outline of the text is the outline of the sermon?’