Are you following us on Twitter? You should! Throughout the week, we use our Twitter account to post links to current news stories that we feel have illustrative potential. To follow us on Twitter, click here. And while you're at it, why not become a friend of PreachingToday.com on Facebook? That would be awfully nice of you.

After you've connected with us through the various social media, I would point you in the direction of two items on our site, both by PreachingToday.com's chief editor, Craig Brian Larson. First up is a challenging, but encouraging article: What All Good Preachers Do. This piece is a part of our ongoing series on prophetic preaching. Second, check out a sermon he recently preached at his church in Chicago: The God Who Shines Like the Sun. If his sermon stirs any ideas for your own preaching, be sure to check out one of the resources we featured in this week's Preaching Today newsletter: He Is Our Light, a new visual illustration from the folks at Media Fuel.

Also this week, don't miss the beautiful illustration taken from Stanley Hauerwas & Jean Vanier's book Living Gently in a Violent World (IVP, 2008). And in case you missed it, we posted a new audio sermon by Mark Buchanan last week, titled The Greatest of These.

Grace and peace,

Brian Lowery
managing editor, PreachingToday.com

Brian Lowery is managing editor of PreachingToday.com.