Over the last month or two I’ve come across several blog entries featuring the advice of Tim Keller on preaching.  Keller is the Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Manhattan, NY.

He’s offered some very practical, down-to-earth ways to become a better preacher.  The following eight tips are given with further commentary over at a site called Theonomy.

1. Prepare the preacher before preparing the sermon.
2. Read magazines across the spectrum.
3. Read book reviews rather than books.
4. Read church history.
5. Listen to shed loads of sermons.
6. Movies, plays, and novels are windows into our culture.
7. Don’t write people off just because you don’t agree with them on everything.
8. Read rapidly through the Bible.

Elsewhere on the web as of late, Keller has said that, “Preacher-Onlys Aren’t Good Preachers,” that it takes preaching roughly 200 sermons to get good at preaching, and that every seminarian should consider solo-pastoring a small country church in order to best grow in skill and wisdom as a pastor.

Related Posts:

• Some Preaching Advice: How Not to Stink (Part 1)
• Some Preaching Advice: How Not to Stink (Part 2)