When It Ain’t Time To Whoop!!!
The question comes up every few months. A reader will read a couple of articles I have written on “whooping” and will either ask “Do you have to whoop?” Or …
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Web Seminar – Associate Minister’s Guide To The Worship Service – REPLAY
Because this was scheduled at the same time as President Obama’s address, I am going to put this whole seminar on line for a limited time. In this seminar, I …
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Follow Your Sermon Outline
I was critiquing a sermon for a client the other day who demonstrated a very common and real problem in his sermon construction. The preacher told me that he just …
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Answer Your Question in Sermons
I wanted to talk a little bit more about a thought described earlier. One of the biggest ways we preach more than one sermon is to attempt to bring a …
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Are Most Preachers Illegitimate?
Over the last couple of weeks about three or four people emailed me messages that had much in common with each other. I can summarize the messages as follows: Most …
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Is My Sermon Done Yet?
Someone emailed me the following question I never know when my sermon is ready for preaching. I think I exegete the scripture adequately and spend a lot of time in …
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Cotton Candy Sermons?
Is your preaching substantive? Does your preaching foster transformation? In an old post on the Preaching Today Blog that is no longer available. The TheoCentric Preaching Blog quotes an old …
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How To Title the Black Sermon
Sermon Titling is something that some consider to be irrelevant while others consider it to be very important. Sermons in the Black Preaching Tradition are often known to be titled well. Sometimes a great title will evoke praise or contemplation from the congregation before the sermon even begins. Because of this I have spent a little time thinking about titles. You can find interesting posts on sermon titles on this website here.
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Don’t Preach More Than One Sermon
In my sermon consulting work, one of the deficiencies that I often find in sermons is that they often have a sermon that is more than one sermon. Preaching more …
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Where’s The Good News In Your Sermons?
In my sermon consulting work, sometimes individuals indicate difficulty finding something to “celebrate.” As you know, celebration is the time in the sermon where we intellectually experience the truth of …
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How To Analyze A Sermon
I will never forget my first homiletic class where the instructor told us to “analyze a sermon.” I had no idea where to begin and the whole idea seemed difficult. …
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Saved By The Same Gospel We Preach To Others
One of my pastors used to pray “Lord save us by the same gospel we preach to others.” It is an almost trivial truth, but we need remember that the …
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Scriptures as Sermon Illustration Resource
Charles Kohler, in his book how to preach without notes, has written on the importance of using the Scripture as an resource for sermon illustrations. On page 45, he he …
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Pain in Your Preaching
Kirk Byron Jones in his book Jazz of Preaching speaks of Black preaching giving voice to hurt as well as it gives voice to joy. On page 114 he writes: …
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