Steve Burchett, writing for the Christian Communicators blog, outlines 10 pieces of help for aspiring preachers.

1. Take advantage of less formal teaching opportunities.
2. Meditate on your text far longer than commentaries.
3. Teach one thing, not a bunch of things.
4. Amplify your comments with colorful words and helpful illustrations.
5. Practice out loud what you will say, as you will say it.
6. If you use notes, don’t constantly look at them.
7. Avoid imitating your favorite preacher’s style.
8. Care for the people you will teach before you teach them something.
9. Pray.
10. Try again.

It’s a helpful list.

Steve offers a paragraph or so of explanation under each piece of advice on this outline.  Make sure to head over his way and read the entire article—“First Sermon Jitters: Help for Aspiring Preachers”

One Last Thing:

If you’ve got any recommendations on the subject of preaching—be it links to online content,  printed  works, sermons, talks, etc.—I’d be interested to check them out.  Please help me out in the comments section.  Thanks.

This post is part of a series.  Make sure to check out each part for related content.

• How Not to Stink (Part 1)
• How Not to Stink (Part 2)
• How Not to Stink (Part 3)