Table of Contents

Features

• The Future of Expository Preaching by Bryan Chappell
• Preaching in a Missionary Age by Timothy Warren
• Confessions of a Sermon Thief by Darryl Dash
• The Year’s Best Software for Preachers: 2004 Edition by Jonathan Kever
• Implementing Persuasive Preaching by Larry Overstreet
• Preparing the Preacher by Robert C. Pitman

Sermons

• Watch Your Example (Matthew 5:7-16) by Bob Russell
• Teach Us How to Pray (Matthew 6:5-13) by Marvin A. McMickle
• Faith Conditioning for the Fourth Quarters of Life (2 Corinthians 4:1, 5-18) by Michael A. Milton

Columns

• From the Lectionary
  
  -- Proper 27 (C) November 7, 2004
  
  It's Sunday but Friday's Coming (Luke 20:27-38)
  
  -- Proper 28 (C) November 14, 2004
  
  Living in the Light of His Coming (2 Thessalonians 3:6-13)
  
  -- Christ the King Sunday (C) November 21, 2004
  
  A New Perspective (Luke 23:33-43)
  
  -- 1st Sunday of Advent (A) November 28, 2004
  
  The King Is Coming (Romans 13:11-14)
  
  -- 2nd Sunday of Advent (A) December 5, 2004
  
  We Give Thanks for More Than Presents (Philippians 1:3-11)
  
  -- 3rd Sunday of Advrnt (A) December 12, 2004
  
  A Real Hoemcoming (Isaiah 35:1-10)
  

• Preacher’s Bookshelf
  
  Preaching to a Shifting Culture. Edited by Scott Gibson 
• To Illustrate  
• Pastor to Pastor: Keeping the First Thing the First Thing in Preaching by Robert Leslie Holmes 
• Back Page Pulpit: Getting older is tough, but it beats the alternative by Michael Duduit