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Editors’ note: This article is the fourth installment a multi-part series on expository preaching that will run each week in December. The series is part of our new Expository Preaching Project. TGC Council pastors are preparing free instructional resources on expository preaching in both video and print formats in six strategic languages. We are prayerfully seeking to raise $100,000 this month to fund the project. Generous partners have offered a 50 percent match ($50,000) of all dollars given up to $100,000 by December 31. To make a donation, please click here and select “Expository Preaching” from the designation list. 

Previously: 

• “6 Ways Not to Preach the Birth of Christ” by Steve Mathewson
• “7 Ways to Become a Better Sermon Listener” by Christopher Ash
• “How Expository Preaching Meets Your Needs” by Dan Doriani

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Every pastor has a general routine he follows each week in preparing to preach the Word of God on the Lord’s Day. I begin on Sunday night, reading next week’s text. I read it over and over, meditatively, throughout the week. By Wednesday, I hope to have a general outline. By Friday evening, I hope to have the sermon written. Each day, I pray that God will prepare my heart to preach his Word. and the heart of the congregation to…