We try to feature excellent sermons every week, but every once in a while we get a true masterpiece. This is a masterpiece. The revered Dr. Robert Smith Jr. exegetes Romans 8:18-30 as he explores what Gardner Taylor called "the sweet torture of Sunday morning." Dr. Smith claims that every preacher knows "The Glory of the Groan." Smith warns us that we can get a 4.0 in exegesis and still flunk preaching. Use this sermon to bring balm to your own soul.

After you preach (especially after you've poured yourself out this Easter season), how do you refill your cup? Over a decade ago Dallas Willard wrote one of our highest-rated preaching skills article—"A Cup Running Over." Willard has a simple premise: "Preachers who are not finding satisfaction in Christ are likely to demonstrate that with overexertion and overpreparation for speaking, and with no peace about what they do after they do it." If you haven't read it in a while, read it today. Fill your cup on Jesus.

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Matt Woodley
Editor, PreachingToday.com
mwoodley@christianitytoday.com

Matt Woodley is the pastor of compassion ministries at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois.