Pride Cometh Before the Bad Sermon

Tim Raymond offers some thoughtful counsel on how preachers can fight pride:

Prayerfully examine your heart daily for pride and repent quickly.
Cultivate distrust for your own evaluations of your sermons.
Grow in your realization that your sermon is entirely dependent upon God's sovereign grace.
Pray desperately for an outpouring of God's Spirit.
Exercise faith in the truth that God's normal means of salvation and sanctification is the ordinary sermon.

Read the whole thing to see an explanation of each point.

HT: Rod Decker