Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching
Preaching is hard, especially in your first years. Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching brings you wisdom from experienced preachers to help you stay faithful, encouraged, and growing. We’re not the experts but we’re bringing them to you, with real conversations, practical tips, and hard-hitting truths to sharpen and sustain you for the road ahead.
Start strong. Preach well. Stay true.
Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching
Bonus Episode: Preaching to Set Vision with Russ Grinter, Darren Middleton, and Phil Campbell
How can preaching do more than teach — how can it shape a church’s direction, culture, and heart for mission?
In this bonus episode, Russ Grinter, Darren Middleton, and Phil Campbell join forces to discuss how faithful preaching can set and sustain gospel vision in a local church. Together, they explore how vision casting happens not through flashy slogans or strategies, but through consistent, Christ-centred preaching that lifts people’s eyes to God’s purposes.
We talk about:
- How to preach in a way that forms a church’s culture over time
- The difference between preaching about vision and for vision
- How to align sermons with the mission and seasons of church life
- Lessons from years of preaching that have helped churches grow in focus and unity
Whether you’re planting, pastoring, or planning the year ahead, this episode will inspire you to preach in a way that helps your church see, and live, God’s big vision together.