Here many who serve the Word will tell their stories, discuss their journeys, and raise their questions. We will suggest sermon content and illustrations. We will ask your opinions.

I am excited about launching PreachingTodayBlog because blogs offer a unique form of communication and community that can benefit pastor/teachers in ways that complement PreachingToday.com and Preaching Today Audio.

The focus of PreachingTodayBlog will not be ministry in general but preaching/teaching in particular. In this venue Preaching Today can be more casual, immediate, conversational, and personal. That will be fun, and we expect, more conducive to linking us together in this high calling.

One of the distinctives of PreachingTodayBlog will be the blogging of Steve Mathewson, who is planning to average two posts a week. Steve is one of most skilled teachers of the Word you will ever hear. He earned his doctor of ministry in preaching under Haddon Robinson at Gordon Conwell. He has been preaching in the local church for more than two decades, most of them in Montana but now in suburban Chicago in proximity to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he is an adjunct professor in preaching (talk about intimidating; D. A. Carson attends his church!). Yet, for all his expertise, when you hear Steve preach, he is completely accessible; he connects; he speaks the language of the person in the pew. And you'll find he speaks the language of the preacher in his blog. Steve's specialty, by the way, is preaching Old Testament stories (see his book, which won a preaching book of the year award: The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative.

I, too, will be blogging. Check out our editorial advisors in the left nav bar, who also will be contributing to the blog on occasion both in posts and comments.

As we develop a sense of the personality of PreachingTodayBlog, I hope you will suggest how we can do this better.