The most important sermon of all time - every week!

The preacher ought to preach the good news of the Lord Jesus every week. 

Yet his sermons should avoid being same-y. 

He should live with the Bible text or texts for a week or more and seek to get them into his bones. He wants his own heart and mind and will to be moved, and he wants to do the same in his hearers. 

We don't want to hear from a preacher who has a moderately important message to which you probably ought to pay due regard. 

Some preachers will be really good at preaching the passage to themselves and will be moved to feel that this Bible text is the most important thing ever. We may get exited by new things we have seen in the text. 

So every week we get more exciting new discoveries and most important things ever! 

In addition to all the most important things we had last week. 

It could all be a bit exhausting and overwhelming. 

There are weightier matters of the law. Some things are more central and more important and clearer than others. Sometimes it will be right to deal with things that are, in the grand scheme of things, not of absolutely central earth-shattering importance but which still matter and are meaningful to us. For example, God's care for the cattle is perhaps not in the top three Biblical truths, but as part of the larger Biblical whole, it is something probably worth touching upon in the course of a fifty year ministry. 

Over time, ideally, we want all Bible truth in Biblical proportions from all the Scriptures, which are all profitable and necessary. And we want them in Christ through the lens of the gospel, applied to us and our circumstances. 

And indeed we want these things with an appropriate mood and atmosphere. Sometimes joy, sorrow, exulting, rebuke, correction, encouragement and so on. We need to know ourselves and our people: what are we tempted to see or feel or overlook? And what do they need?

All of which is to say that the preacher has a great and weighty task which requires lots of wisdom, skill, prayer and grace. We look to the Spirit to help us do this as well as we can alongside all our other responsibilities, always knowing that there are no perfect preachers and no perfect sermons but that God is powerful and gracious and can use mightily even our most week and feeble efforts.