"Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance" (2Pe 1:13)

Preachers often hear someone say," Preacher, it seems like you just preached on that topic a few weeks ago." Or "Don't you know know anything else except the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus?" These people mean well and sometimes their criticism is justified. Preachers, just like other people, can get in ruts. Preachers must guard against this by preaching the whole counsel of God. Yet, there are some things that must be preached often.

Peter, the apostle in this verse, places the responsibility on preachers to keep the people in remembrance. In verse 16, he said, "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." This is one of the things that a preacher must remind people, that Christianity is not a religion built on man, but on God.

Jesus, Himself, knew that mankind needed reminding often of some things. This is why we partake of the Lord's supper on each first day of the week (Acts 20:7). Paul, the apostle, had to remind the church at Corinth of the importance of partaking of this memorial feast in the right manner. (1Co 11:23-29)

Peter, also, in this chapter reminds us that the scriptures came from God, and not from man. "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2Pe 1:20-21) These are but a few of the things a gospel preacher must continue to bring before our remembrance. So the next time you thing the preacher is just preaching the same sermon over again, remember that is part of his God given responsibility.