The Preaching Elder Initiative is a 4-stage process to equip church elders to craft and deliver sermons to a congregation, especially for the sake of sharing the preaching burden with lead ministers.

This page provides 7 example sermons from the book’s coauthors. Six of the sermons come from a genre of Scripture with the final of the seven being a biographical sermon. Sermon types are indicated below with the speaker’s name parenthetically. They are posted in the order of Scripture genre (Law first, OT History second, etc.).

• Law (Jeff Faull)

• Old Testament History (Dr Gary Johnson)

• Prophet (Dr Jim Estep)

• Gospel/Good News (Dr Billy Strother)

• New Testament History (Ken Idleman)

• New Testament Letter (Dr David Roadcup)

• Biographic (Tom Ellsworth)

The Preaching Elder, Stage 2
Example Sermons