I am having a ball looking at some of this classic gospel from the 60s. In this video the late great Dorthy Love Coates and the Gospel Harmonettes sing You Must Be Born Again. Coates looks like a preacher with her expressive gestures especially the facial features. She definitely lets her excitement and her identification with the music come through.
Month: January 2007
Praise God for the Computer Scientist
This is of interest to me as a theolgian and a software engineer. Milton Stanley over at the Transforming Sermons blog has noted that a Computer Scientist has found many errors in the Greek Bibles that are found online. That Computer Scientist, Alan Bunning, is posting corrected versions of these electronic texts. You can find his site here.
Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone – Soul Stirrers
I am happy that people are still posting classic Soul Stirrers videos to you tube. Here is one of my favorite songs by the Soul Stirrers.
5 Things I Want From a Sermon
After listening to a sermon, I thought about what I want in the sermon. Here are a few of the primary things that I want from a sermon. I especially want these things from a black preacher preaching a black sermon.
1. One Thought
Planning out Your Sermons for the Year
I am not a Pastor who has the responsibility of preaching every week. But if I were, I would hope that I would be as on the ball as a few preachers are who have already made plans for a good part of the year. The editor of Brian’s preacher’s blog has placed his initial notes on a few sermon series that he will preach.
Henry Mitchell Black Church Beginnings – A History Book for Black Preachers
Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King and the movement for freedom that he was a part of. The Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly has an Interview with the Dean of Preachers Gardner C. Taylor. You can find the interview in text and some video at this link. Dr. Taylor talks about many issues including church and politics, mega churches, and preaching. One very important quote is the following: Pat Robertson predicts that a massive terrorist attack will happen to the USA in 2007 according to an article in CNN.Com. The article goes on to tell of Robertson’s other predictions and interesting statements. For example, Robertson saying that God punished Ariel Sharon with a stroke for giving some of the land to the Palistinians. Robertson also predicted that bush would easily win re-election. Over at the Vulgar Homiletics blog, Dave Barnhart is in the middle of a series entitled Preaching Basics. It looks to be a helpful series of pointers to keep in mind when you preach. For example the first is to Keep it Simple. Barnhart suggests that we use simple language without dumbing down the message. The second is to get rid of the passive verbs. The third is to incorporate silence and pause into the message. Go on over and follow this interesting series.
Henry Mitchell’s central point in his work
A Little Talk With Jesus
Troubles of Every Kind
Thank God I’ll Always Find
That a Little Talk with Jesus Makes It Right
The Preacher that Changed the World
Sermons that Prepare People to Live in the Real World
The Apprentice and Pastoral Reflections
Well, the Apprentice is back and I must admit that this is about the only television show that I look at every week. I am not sure why it is so appealing to me, perhaps it is that we are simply looking at human nature.
Fortuneteller or Prophet?
Preaching Basics from the Vulgar Homiletics Blog