Ready to Preach
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Baker Academic (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
Preach with Confidence, Clarity, and Conviction This introductory homiletics textbook gives students and pastors a step-by-step process for crafting and communicating biblical sermons that are theologically grounded, culturally aware, and spiritually formed. Leading scholar and professor of preaching Matthew D. Kim draws on twenty-five years of preaching experience to offer ● a trinitarian framework, centering all three persons of the Trinity in sermon preparation and delivery; ● guidance through five major areas of preparation: theological, biblical, cultural, spiritual, and communicational; ● ten sermonic steps that offer a clear, repeatable process from text selection to pulpit delivery; ● contextual preaching that equips preachers to apply Scripture meaningfully to today's listeners; and ● exercises and examples suited for the classroom and ongoing pastoral practice. This "next generation" homiletics resource restores the Bible and the triune God to their rightful place in the pulpit. Written for both novice and experienced preachers, it equips readers to expound, communicate, and apply Scripture with clarity and conviction so they can deliver contextualized messages for today's listeners.
Endorsements (4)
“Scholar and professor Matthew D. Kim offers a theologically rich, biblically astute, culturally attuned, spiritually rooted, and communicationally aware introduction to homiletics. It will make you ready to preach but also, perhaps more importantly, ready to worship the triune God. More than an introduction to preaching, it is an introduction to how preaching is ultimately doxology. Read these pages and you will be ushered into prayer and praise: 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.”
“The world of preaching is ready and waiting for Ready to Preach! Kim's book fills a gap in homiletics literature by focusing on five forms of preparedness: theological, biblical, cultural, spiritual, and communicational. His theological framework is distinct from other preaching texts because it presses into a trinitarian foundation for preaching. A leader in the area of homiletics and culture, Kim gets us culturally ready to preach God's Word. This work is replete with biblical references, anecdotes, and practical wisdom. With depth and breadth, warmth and wisdom, he draws on the scholarship of those who have gone before him while pushing us all forward into thoughtful consideration about today's listeners, the Bible, and theology. Most importantly, his authorial voice is filled with grace, humility, and confidence in the God of the Bible and what God has called preachers to do each Sunday. I am delighted to add Ready to Preach to my preaching syllabus.”
“Many introductory homiletics textbooks are very similar in content, style, and approach. They have a basic outline to move someone from the text to the sermon. But Matthew Kim's Ready to Preach breaks that mold. Coming from a seasoned academic and practitioner, this work is trinitarian-focused, is sensitive to cultural concepts related to gender and ethnicity, and demonstrates the centrality of preaching to all the other aspects of developing disciples within a local congregation. Those who labor weekly to preach the text of Scripture with faithfulness, depth, and clarity will welcome this work.”
“Those familiar with Matthew Kim's work have come to expect his remarkable ability to translate profound concepts into practical preaching wisdom—and this volume delivers. An experienced preacher and respected teacher of preaching, he brings that same tested insight to the page, guiding readers with probing questions and rich examples. Those who learn from him will find their preaching more deeply grounded in theological conviction and more thoughtfully crafted.”
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