There is a very interesting blog post by Tim Ellsworth on his Sports, Christianity and Culture blog.  He gives some good advice on how to think about preaching.  I must say that I have given this a lot of thought in formulating my own view of preaching over the years.  It has been a great help to me to be in the shoes of church member, ruling elder, seminarian, and now pastor.  It is my hope and prayer that I preach the kinds of sermons that I desired to feed the souls of my family and me when we were members of a church.  (And it doesn’t hurt that we were blessed by our pastors at the time, who included the current Professor of Preaching at Covenant Seminary).   I sure resonate with what Tim has to say, and I hope you will encourage me to continue to preach from the Bible, to preach Jesus, and (especially!) not to try and impress you all the time with Greek and Hebrew!

 Link to the blog post.