Josh Benner

Tag: homiletics

  • 4 goals I have with every sermon I preach

    4 goals I have with every sermon I preach

    I’ve had the privilege of preaching over 450 sermons. In every sermon, I have four goals and those never change. 1. To be faithful to the text Preaching must begin with the text itself. That might sound like stating the obvious, but it’s not actually where every pastor starts. Many pastors start with an idea…

  • 4 goals in every sermon I preach

    I love preaching. I love everything about it. I love preparing to preach. I love behind the pulpit. I love evaluating a message afterwards. I love listening to sermons. I think a lot about preaching. In preaching, there are a lot of factors to consider in how to construct a sermon: genre of the passage,…