Steve Mathewson

May 6, 2024 | preachingtoday.com | Steve Mathewson |Dan Meyer |Mark Mitchell

From the editor: Mother's Day is just around the corner (May 9), and should you decide to offer a message for the occasion, Steve Mathewson's look at Proverbs 31 might provide some helpful direction for your own preaching. If you're not planning on preaching a sermon about mothers, motherhood, etc, I would still suggest filing this one away for your records. Steve offers some great thoughts for preaching on parenting in general! Click here to listen to the audio.

Apr 24, 2024 | preachingtoday.com | Jeffrey Arthurs |Gregory Hollifield |Steve Mathewson

One of the preachers’ roles is persuader. Under our sovereign God we want to produce change in the listeners—strengthening existing belief, overturning wrong belief, rebuking sinful action, or coaching new habits. “Knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others” (2 Cor. 5:11). One of the best ways to persuade is with story.

Mar 28, 2024 | preachingtoday.com | Jeffrey Arthurs |Steve Mathewson |Adam Hamilton |Tim Keller

As the West continues to slide into a post-Christian worldview and lifestyle, preachers will do well to sharpen their skills in persuasion. To do this, we can learn from our Lord and use the greater-to-lesser (and lesser-to-greater) argument. To do this, a speaker begins by stating something that the listeners already believes—a “no-brainer”—and then connects that belief to a second statement that is not so obvious, the point actually in the crosshairs of argumentation.

Aug 31, 2023 | preachingtoday.com | Andrew Murch |Steve Mathewson |Greg Scharf |Joshua Butler

On March 29, 1996, a new documentary series premiered on E!, an NBC-affiliated entertainment network. The first episode chronicled the murder of young pop star Rebecca Schaeffer, who was shot and killed by a stalker in 1989. Audiences were treated to a twisting plot of intrigue through the sensationalized scenario of the starlet’s demise. Viewers were hooked.

Aug 4, 2023 | preachingtoday.com | Haddon Robinson |J. I. Packer |John Henry Beukema |Steve Mathewson

[Editor’s Note: Haddon Robinson passed away in 2017.] Some questions people ponder all their lives. Einstein wrestled with the question of gravity till his dying day. On the subject of preaching, one of the elemental questions is "What is biblical preaching?" Everyone who takes Scripture seriously says we need to preach the Bible, but even the most ardent disagree widely about what that means exactly.