Outward Preaching

This week’s clip is a sermon introduction by Jeremiah Montgomery that opens up and illustrates a common topic, going beyond the typical way it’s addressed. It’s video #28, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip is from Mark Jenkins, pastor of Resurrection Presbyterian Church in Placentia, CA. Mark draws on an accessible illustration to help people feel the reality of evangelism and be encouraged in the outcome. It’s video #27 (the first one you see), here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip is an intro to a sermon that helps set the tone in a deep topic and reasonably difficult text in a way that warms up the hearers but also delivers a deep truth. It’s video #26, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip approaches evangelism from a more relational and accessible way that doesn’t require a degree in theology (or anything close) to practice. It’s video #25, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip takes time to press upon the hearers the point of the text and the point of the introduction to the sermon about the most important thing in life. Think about how effective it is when often we would expect a quicker illustration and move on to the next thing.   It’s video […]

This week’s clip opens up the beginning of the Gospel of Mark in an engaging and helpful manner while still digging into the text. It also explains a common misconception about the OT and NT in just a couple of minutes.   It’s video #23, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip vividly engages all kinds of people with something everyone is familiar with and draws the connection to the text and call.   It’s video #22, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip gives a pointed and challenging call in a way that doesn’t slight the seriousness (actually amps it up) but does so in a way that biblically illiterate people can grasp.   It’s video #21, here: Outward Preaching

A note of context about this week’s text: It was the first return to in-person worship after Covid in CA. The preacher, Jesse Pirschel, does a good job of explaining the setting of the text. Again, think about how foreign the Bible is to outsiders dealing with things in the first century and how helpful […]

This week’s clip deals with deep theology in an engaging way that shows the heart and life of a sometimes maligned doctrine. How do you explain election? How have you heard election explained? Did it have this kind of glory and grace in it?   It’s video #19, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip is a great example of deep exposition–not shying away from precision and depth–but also making it accessible to many.   It’s video #18, here: Outward Preaching 

This week’s clip takes time to open an illustration that would engage Christians and non-Christians alike. After explaining, the title of Jesus is applied in a way many could grasp.   It’s video #17, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s clip provides a great comparison and illustration that is profound yet accessible to anyone in the midst of our divisive culture.   It’s video #16, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s Outward Preaching clip gives a memorable, vivid picture of untying Jesus sandals. When you watch, imagine how well unbelievers and unchurched would get the point.   It’s video #15, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s Outward OPC clip opens up God’s heart for outsiders in a text that is often difficult to understand–certainly for outsiders. How can Jesus get so angry???? It’s video #14, here: “Outward Preaching”

This week’s Outward Preaching clip lays out the modern catechism of identity, belonging, and believing that outsiders would immediately “get.” Then it sets out the relief of the gospel. It’s video #13, here: Outward Preaching

This week’s Outward Preaching clip is both fun and insightful. It’s great preaching in a way that engages kids and adults alike in a fun image–not for the sake of fun–but to prove a point that is driven home in just two minutes. It’s video #12, here: “Outward Preaching”

This week’s Outward Preaching clip displays a strong, thorough exposition of the Bible–hearty Reformed preaching–but it does so with enough gospel application that outsiders would get the point of the preaching. It’s video #11, here: Outward Preaching

In our next Outward Preaching clip, the pastor chooses to bring current events into the opening of his sermon even though it’s a difficult & divisive topic. He does so with skill and does it for a particular reason. Because the way people were feeling on this day, at this time, in our country made […]

Our next Outward Preaching video is a clip about God, history, and governments applied to our current setting. Check out video #9: Outward Preaching