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PREACHING WEBSITES

 

http://www.preaching.com/newsletter/subscribe.html

This site provides you with PreachingNow Newsletter free of charge every week through email. PreachingNow addresses issues of preaching and current events that are helpful to ministry. It also links to other sites that provide full illustrations and stories.

 

http ://www.textweek.com

The Text This Week is a lectionary based preaching website. It contains reading texts from different versions, commentary, exegesis, and sermons. It provides links to other resources for preaching and worship. This site is a handy aid for sermon preparation.

 

http://www.montreal.anglican.org/comment

Based on Revised Common Lectionary. It offers a brief commentary, introductions and technical notes for biblical texts "next week,"" this week," and "last week." A brief and useful preaching resource.

 

http://www.sermons.org

This website provides sermons presented by the preachers of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. It includes textual and topical sermons, and sermon of the week, and" free illustrations via email. Preachers who like non-lectionary based preaching might prefer this page. It offers detailed outline sermons.

 

http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/Nave/Topic/Preaching

Provides topical studies in reference to biblical texts and comments on the texts. Topics are based on Nave's Topical Bible and Torrey's Topical Textbook. They are similar to concordances.

 

http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermons/s-children.html

This site consists of Children's Resources for children preaching. It links with other sites that provide sermons for kids and the children's chapel that includes Bible stories for children. A resource for children's church.

 

http://www.evangelismtoolbox.com

Evangelistic resources are available from this site. It provides resources for evangelism in categories (e.g. Apologetics, other religions) and in group types (College students, young adults). It also links with top ten organizations of evangelism. A helpful resource for evangelical preaching.

 

http://www.alternativeworship.org

This site will help you to create Alternative Worship. It provides you with Theory, Practice, Directory and Contact that help you to create Alternative Worship of your own. A helpful resource for designing a worship that fits the needs of the present, http://www.smallfire.org is a related site with lots of photographs of alternative worship settings.

 

http://www.christianglobe.com/Illustrations/

Sermon illustrations referenced by topic. They include hundreds of high quality stories, analogies and social statistics.

 

http://www.ozsermonillustrations.com/searchbytopic.htm

An additional site for sermon illustrations. You can search OzSermonllIustrations by keyword or by topic. These illustrations are international in scope, but with many drawn from or oriented to the Australian context.

 

http://bible.crosswalk.com/

Available tools: Interlinear Bible, Parallel Bible, Commentaries, Concordances, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Lexicons, Condensed Biblical Encyclopedia, History. Complete resources for preaching and Bible study.

 

http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible

Bible Gateway has 16 Bible versions available online. It provides a free service for reading and researching scripture online based on key words or scripture references.

 

http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/lectionary

The Revised Common Lectionary readings for years A, B, and C. FAQs about the lectionary and the church year. Links to online lectionary and liturgical resources.

 

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