PreachingToday has launched a new website to inspire sermon preparation. PreachingToday is a web ministry of Christianity Today International. This new website has been designed to give preachers more tools to inspire their creativity and improve their sermon preparation. As you know, sermn preparation is vital in the PNCC since the hearing of, and teaching on the Word of God is a sacrament.

The new PreachingToday site includes better search features that help preachers sort and filter thousands of top-quality illustrations, sermons, and ideas faster and more effectively.

Brian Larson, editor of PreachingToday, says: “Our purpose as a website is to inspire preachers and our redesign enables us to accomplish that goal better than before. Our illustrations are fresh and drawn primarily from contemporary culture, and our articles will inspire our readers to be better preachers.”

Proper preparation takes up many hours of most pastors’ weeks. Because of the sacramental nature of preaching in the PNCC, pastors must be well prepared and preach at a very high level every week, offering engaging messages that will direct their congregation to draw closer to God.

PreachingToday is a subscription resource. Pastors can join for free for 30 days.

…and some humor

On the issue preaching, a friend sent this to me:

My pastor friend told me his church installed sanitary, hot-air hand dryers in the rest rooms. After about two weeks, I dropped by to see him and noticed workmen taking them out.

I asked him why. The pastor confessed that they worked fine but said when he went in the men’s room after the previous Sunday’s service, he found a scribbled note above one of the hand dryers that read, “For a sample of this week’s sermon, push button.”

Not surprisingly, the dryers were out, paper towel dispensers were back in.