Look at your sermons over the last year… All of them… Look at what you celebrated… Look at the ethical demands in your sermons…
Month: December 2017
Who Creates the Sermon?
Who creates a sermon? My homiletics professor, Dr. Brad Braxton, said, “You can’t write a sermon down because a sermon is an event.” You can’t write down an event. You can write…
The First Step To All Sermon Preparation
First Step… What is the Text Saying… Sometimes we jump to Commentaries… Sometimes we jump to dictionaries…
Sometimes You Have to Punt
A while ago I was listening to a football coach. He said, “To have to Punt is not a mistake. Throwing an interception to keep from punting is a mistake.” If you…
Preaching Texts That Are Hard To Preach
There are two kinds of texts that are very hard to exegete and preach. The first are those that you have read so often, you think you already know what it is…
Your Call Will Return so Follow It
Abram’s folk were on a trip from Ur of the Chaldeans to Canaan. But they stopped on the way… They didn’t get to Canaan because they stopped in Haran. The Bible says…
Why They May Not Want To Hear You Preach
“It’s their loss…” You ever heard any preacher say that when folks didn’t want to hear them preach? Have you ever said or thought it? The preacher who says this thinks that…
When Doors Of Ministry Don’t Open
We all have found ourselves in the position of wondering why our ministry hasn’t gone forward in the way that we thought it aught… Many of us have gotten some training only…
Is This Evangelism?
What is The Church? Is it primarily a place where I punch the clock to let God know that I attended…. Is it primary a place where I go to consume religious…