
Should Women Preach?
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 MoreWhat The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
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 MoreHow 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 MoreA 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 MoreTo 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 MoreAnother 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 MoreAnother 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 MoreJust 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 MoreOften 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 MoreI 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 MoreOne of the interesting problems in some preaching is a premature celebration. The people are with the preacher and she or he has the church moving towards a powerful end. …
Premature Celebration Read MoreWe are offering a free question and answer call on preaching at 8:30PM Central Time on Febuary 23, 2010.
Free Audio Question and Answer Call Read MoreOK, maybe you will, but the law of averages tells us that the vast majority of the people reading this website will not have a mega church. You will, probably never preside over 3-5K parishioners who hang on your every word. But that’s all right.
You Won’t Have A Mega-church Read MorePreachers are called to give a word in season and out of season. Sometimes that word will upset the hearer. Sometimes we are called to speak a word that the …
Do You Know When To Shut Up? Read More