Software and Web Resources

We also offer weekly and monthly updated audio and video podcasts from prominent ministers and well-known authors, features and ministry articles from your contemporaries, and classic messages, encouragement and counsel from past “masters,” who have left indelible impressions as faithful servants. Under the Events section on the site, you’ll find information on upcoming training and conference events, such as the National Conference on Preaching.

Also on Preaching.com, you’ll find Bible study tools, which is a direct link to Bible.Christianity.com, where you’ll be able to do your own personal study of Scripture, choose the version of your preference, mark (flag) your online Bible, add parallel Scripture references, find online studies and read featured articles by people such as John Piper, and access sermon helps that tie back into Preaching.com and SermonSearch.com. Other sites featuring Bible study tools are Crosswalk.com, Lightsource.com and Oneplace.com.

In addition to allowing you to conduct searches for sermons by term(s) or author and sort by relevance, SermonSearch.com also features its top seven downloads, a rotating featured sermon, an area where you can “meet” the contributors, Points to Ponder, and ties back into the

aforementioned Bible study tools.

Crosswalk.com offers much in the way of study, including an extensive array of Bible translations and online commentaries. Also under the Pastor & Leadership channel, you’ll find helpful articles pertaining to the issues ministers face, as well as discussions on matters ranging from connecting with fellow ministry professionals to how to prepare a sermon.

Similar to SermonSearch.com, Sermoncentral.com allows site visitors to search sermons according to keywords, Scripture references, dates and pre-sorted topics. The site—operated by the same organization that publishes Outreach magazine—offers more than 140,000 free sermons, illustrations, dramas and PowerPoint presentations by more than 6,000 contributors, as well as provides a listing of the most-viewed sermons, most-read newsletters and most-watched video illustrations.

Finally, pastors will find the Internet to be an access point to an amazing array of biblical and theological resource sites, with something to suit virtually any theological approach. For example, Monergism.com is a unique Web site offering an abundance of resources pertaining to biblical, covenant and reformed theology; commentaries, sermons by text, MP3 library; articles on the Trinity, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the attributes of God, bondage versus free will, doctrines of grace, regeneration and justification.

Under the section titled Study Desk is an online study Bible, historic creeds and confessions, and Bible research tools—including information on the history of the canon, texts and versions of Scripture. On the site, you’ll also find links to blogs, online ministries and top 10 lists, including one for sermons. However, MP3 sermons also are searchable by topic and speaker, and manuscripts are arranged by Scripture text and author. A wide assortment of books arranged by category, bestselling and publisher also are available through the site.