Noticeably Better Preaching course consists of ten training videos with extensive notes for each session. The course is designed to help you make noticeable improvement in five essential areas:

Content   (being richly biblical; making sure the main message of your sermon equals the main message of the text)
Clarity    (preaching so people so that people can follow you as you work your way through a passage of Scripture)
Interest    (gaining and sustaining interest from start to finish)
Gospel    (presenting the good news of the gospel starting from whatever passage you are preaching)
Delivery  (using the full range of your God-given personality to preach with believable passion)

In addition to the videos, we’ve included a sermon feedback matrix that helps you get meaningful input from others. Plus, you will also receive suggested assignments that help you put what you are learning into practice.

Sample Video and Sample Session Notes

Here’s a sample of one the instructional videos and a copy of the session notes that accompany it.

Registration Information

The Noticeably Better Preaching Course includes ten teaching videos, extensive session notes (in pdf format), a sermon feedback matrix, and suggested assignments to help you grow as a preacher or teacher.

The cost of the course is $75.00. If you’d like to register, send an email to rickandlindareed@gmail.com and you will receive specific instructions on how to enroll.

If you are looking to get noticeably better as a preacher or teacher, you may want to check out the Preacher to Preacher podcast. This podcast provides encouragement and equipping to all who are engaged in preaching and teaching God’s Word. While episodes are short and sweet (under ten minutes), each one offers biblical, practical help on how to noticeably improve as a preacher or teacher.

You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts.

Many of us who preach and teach God’s Word place a high premium on preparation. We study Scripture, seeking to understand what it says. We carefully prepare our speaking notes so we accurately communicate what we’ve learned. Our problem is, that when we preach or teach, we can feel overly tied to our notes. Manacled to our manuscripts. And that can keep us from fully connecting with our hearers.

How can we get free from our notes?

In this eBook, Rick Reed explains how preachers and teachers can find greater freedom from their teaching notes while still accurately communicating the content they’ve prepared.

Download your free eBook of How to Get Free From Your Sermon Notes.

Preaching is hard work. Anyone who tells you otherwise either has the gifting of Charles Spurgeon (highly unlikely) or is not doing biblical preaching.

But the hardest part about preaching is the heart work it requires! The biggest challenge I face as a preacher and teacher of God’s Word is keeping my heart in good order week in and week out. Preaching is not just hard work; it’s heart work.

In first half of The Heart of the Preacher, I highlight fifteen heart-level tests preachers and teachers often experience as they seek to communicate God’s Word. Tests like dealing with ambition, comparison, fear, laziness, criticism, pain, and failure.

In the back half of the book, I present ten practices we can use to strengthen our souls and guard our hearts in life and ministry.

My prayer has been that God would use this book to strengthen the hearts of those who preach and teach His Word.

You can order a digital or print copy of The Heart of the Preacher from Amazon or Lexham Press. Note: Lexham Press also offer a Logos edition of the book.

Recommendations for The Heart of the Preacher

“The Heart of the Preacher is as easy to read as it is hard to hear. With refreshing and unrelenting honesty, Rick Reed gifts those of us who preach with a disturbingly accurate MRI of our souls, and then helpfully guides us forward. Every pastor needs to buy this book. And give a copy to a colleague.” J. Kent Edwards, Professor of Preaching and Leadership, Talbot School of Theology.

Speaking in a pastoral tone to today’s preachers, Rick Reed helps identify, examine, and navigate the inner conflictedness of public ministry. . . . Reed fills a gaping hole in current homiletics literature on the spiritual dynamics of sermon preparation, and generously sprinkles practical hints on the mechanics of an effective sermon too. This book will be a required text in my course on spiritual preparation for preaching.” Ramesh Richard, Professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and President of RREACH International.

“In The Heart of the Preacher, my friend Rick demonstrates that these loves are strong in his heart, and provides insights to sustain them in ours, so that we may minister with integrity and longevity for the glory of our Saviour and the good of his people” Bryan Chapell, President Emeritus at Covenant Theological Seminary and author of Christ Centered Preaching.

One of our most-read posts is from a chapter in Rick’s book, The Heart of the Preacher. If you’ve been worn down in ministry and thought of calling it quits, you’ll find empathy and encouragement in this article. You can read the article by clicking here.

This is another of the most-read posts on our blog. It speaks to our need to care for our bodies and souls so we can go the distance in caring for others. You can read the post here.