The Biblical Preaching blog has a post up entitled “After you preach, then what happens?” In it the importance of a sermonic purpose is discussed. The author states: “we should be preaching for response.”
Month: May 2007
Preaching by Playing Words Like Notes
Kirk Byron Jones introduces the concept of “playing words” in his helpful book The Jazz of Preaching.
Audio-Video-Text-What Format for My Sermons?
The other day someone emailed me about turning one of my websites into a internet TV show on his website. I visited the site and saw that it looked very impressive. I also searched and found 4 other sites that do the exact same thing. They charge you to put your feed up on their site.
Internet Ministry Not a Television Show
What is a Minister?
That is the question that is being answered on the Unashamed Workman Blog. I would encourage all preachers to go on over and look at this 6 part series that looks at 6 Biblical images of the preacher. The first 3 have already been posted. The Hard Working Farmer, The Law Abiding Athlete, and the Good Soldier.
How To Create a Manuscript for Preaching
Barry Davis provides hints on how to preach with a manuscript. Davis provides examples and rules for creating a manuscript that will make your people think that you are preaching without notes.
This is a very good article on a subject that very little people write on. Namely, how do you format a manuscript for preaching.
Top 5 Bible Technologies
Over at the Withering Fig there is a post up on the top 5 Bible Technlogies. Great post, so head on over. Points 2 and 3 which introduced me to Zhubert for original language study and the Bible study Blog link.
Top 5 Techniques for Sermon Idea Generation
This post is a part of the ProBlogger.Com Group writing project. If you have a Blog I would encourage you to join in. In This post I have the Top 5 techniques for SErmon Idea Generation. I assume that you already have a text.
- Look at the Text through a theme. Here you take a theme like Youth or Mother’s Day or Seniors, or some other theme. You then look at the text explicitly to see if what the text says specifically about the situation under consideration.
Theo-Centric Preaching Thesis Download
Head on over to the Theocentric Blog to download the author’s DMin Thesis. This is the material behind his Theocentric preaching seminars.
The Mega Church Phenomenon and the Black Church
“An Increase in the Number of African American Megachurches” is the fifth trend that Martha Simmons wrote about in the African American Pulpit Spring Edition of 2007.
Articulating the Gospel – Beyond Regurgitation
I must admit that I am impressed by these brothers at Reformed Blacks of America. They are seeking to push African Americans in that movement to apply the Gospel to their own context and not simply regurgitate the pre-packaged presentations of our white colleagues.
I would encourage you to read the whole entry, but of special interest are the 4 traits of Radical Reformed Churches.