Sean Palmer

For pastors used to more topical preaching, research confirms what you’re sensing—people crave biblical depth, and fall gives you the consistency to deliver it.

To preach with power, you must do more than explain. You must create like an artist—crafting something beautiful, true, and alive.

In the wake of Walter Brueggemann’s passing, we’re left with his challenge: Preach not to explain but to evoke. Not to tame but to testify.

This cultural moment needs prophetic and priestly preachers!

3 ways we can be faithful to the text and our congregation.

3 ways to improve our preaching.

Finding hope amid grief and loss.

A preacher’s guide to growth.

The difference between unprepared preaching and good preaching.

Two steps preachers can learn about storytelling from the Olympics.

How to make our preaching more effective.

Four steps to recover our balance in preaching.

The temptation of being ‘creative.’

The payoff for Easter is Pentecost.

Are we missing the life that is right in front of us, often found in interruptions?

How to hear what your church is hearing.

Preachers can learn a lot from the way movies tell stories.

This Christmas let’s tell and trust the greatest story that never gets old.

3 reasons why we need to keep preaching.

Do our sermons name what is true even if we don’t wish it were true?

Preaching is about humanity and proclamation, something AI can’t do.

Why preaching must engage the imagination of our hearers.

Preaching to both on Juneteenth and every week.

Tim Keller was a preacher full of perseverance, grace, and determination.

The story of the Bible is the nourishment our people need.

How can we help our people see the world differently?

It’s time for pulpits to matter again.

Our sermons ought to come from the overflow of our life with God.