What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
Olin Moyd writes on page 36 of The Sacred Art: Redemption for African Americans meant salvation from states and circumstances as well as salvation from sin, guilt, and the consequence …
Salvation Includes Physical and Mental Liberation Read More
A while back I wrote a post on how we sometimes domesticate Jesus. He becomes a Jesus who always supports our own causes and defeats other’s causes. As I noted …
Killing the Communal Aspects of the Gospel Read More
The question has come up on many if not most of our web seminars. The question is interesting in my own Soul Preaching ministry in that we are an eclectic …
Should Women Preach? Read More
How can you preach when you don’t feel like preaching? Someone asked that question a while ago. And this is a very interesting question. Let me first of all say …
Preaching When You Dont Feel Like Preaching Read More
A pastor friend of mine told me that there are many so called “great” preachers who preach “great” sermons, but their preaching does not seem to have the conversion power only given by the Holy Ghost.
Too many preachers are simply preaching sermons about “God hooking you up.” Their sermons are about what humanity is going to get. It is about the money, jobs, fame, etc that God has for those who are God’s own.
How To Preach Without Converting Anybody Read More
To this point we have looked at poor methods of relevance. Now I want to look at a better method. This is where you take the doctrine and show its …
Relevance Through Mindset Read More
Another approach to relevance that preachers use is the ignoring relevance approach. Here you don’t even worry about relevance. Instead of telling folks that something is relevant because you must …
Ignoring Relevance Read More
Another approach to relevance in preaching is to present a “take it or leave it” approach. Here the preacher instead of simply saying the truth is relevant, as in the …
“Take it or Leave it” Relevance in Preaching Read More
Just because something is true does not mean that it is of utmost importance. An idea must be both “true” and “relevant to the present time” to be worthy of …
Brute Force Relevance in Preaching Read More
Often preachers can make it seem as though the Bible is irrelevant for contemporary needs and society. Part of the problem is that we don’t truly allow the Bible to …
How To Connect the Bible World To Today’s World? Read More
“Show Don’t Tell” is almost a mantra among many novelists. The cliche’ comes from the idea that you should not tell people things or points in your writing, you should …
Discovery In Preaching – Show and Then Tell Read More
I was listening to a preacher this Sunday who was an expert at the bad news. His sermon was 90% bad news. Then when it was time for the celebration …
Does The Bad News Outweigh The Good News? Read More