For today's entry in the Friday Five interview series, we catch up with Matt Woodley.

Matt Woodley is managing editor for PreachingToday.com. He is also the Pastor of Compassion Ministries at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois. He is also the author of God With Us: The Gospel of Matthew (IVP).

Today we chat with Matt about the importance of PreachingToday.com, relevance of the Sunday sermon, and being yourself.

Some have questioned the utility of services like Preaching Today, saying that, at best, they enable laziness on the part of pastors and at worst, plagiarism. How would you answer that?

Well, a website like PreachingToday.com certainly could be used to enable laziness AND plagiarism—just as you could use a brick to build a house or smash it through a window. Just to be clear, we are very anti-laziness and anti-plagiarism. However, we intentionally post sermon manuscripts because we feel that reading sermons has a number of practical benefits for the preacher. ...