Recapturing the Voice of God: Shaping Sermons Like Scripture (Biblia.com)

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There is a difference between preaching from the Bible and preaching that allows the Bible to drive the substance, structure, and spirit of the sermon. A text-driven sermon allows the structure of the text to become buoyant, to come to the surface so that the sermon can be built around that structure. In this way the word of God (the meaning of the text) is presented in a way that is influenced...

we call expository preaching simply isn’t. The word comes from a Latin root: we ex (remove) the posit (postulate) of truth that is in the text and show it to the people. Though the use of the word exposition has been well intended, I fear it has often become a referent for a tired, formulaic preaching template—so much so that when we say “exposition” we are using the word to refer to a style of structuring sermons. But I’m not willing to call students to give their lives to a style. That’s nonsense

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