At the end of another year, I look back on 2010 and thank God for working through PreachingToday.com to help preachers like you be biblical and faithful. Our website exists by God's grace, for "from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever," (Romans 11:36). In particular I thank God for helping us launch our redesigned site and for bringing Matt Woodley to the team as our new managing editor.

One of the highlights of the year has been the outstanding articles that the Lord provided for us on the theme of prophetic preaching. If you haven't had a chance to read them yet, I urge you to do so over the holiday. You will be inspired.

In my own preaching over 2010, the one principle I've seen reaffirmed repeatedly is the importance of preaching about God, his ways, his works, his heart, in every sermon and every text. Yes, that's obvious, but it's easy to take God for granted, and easy for our listeners to take God for granted, and for all of us to think we have him all figured out. Nothing is more relevant than who God is and what he has done. Nothing is more interesting to our hearers if we accurately show what our preaching text shows to be true about him. God is the most fascinating and surprising being in the universe. Nothing transforms the human soul like the true knowledge of God and his gospel proclaimed with passionate faith by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Preaching Christ,

Brian Larson
Editor, PreachingToday.com
blarson@christianitytoday.com

Craig Brian Larson is the pastor of Lake Shore Church in Chicago and author and editor of numerous books, including The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching (Zondervan). He blogs on Knowing God and His Ways at craigbrianlarson.com.