Great preaching has Solid scholarship…you have used whatever ability you have to get at the Bible writer’s intent. That will look like original language study if you know them. It will look…
Author: Sherman Haywood Cox II
Vanderbilt Trained Minister (MDiv), Univ. of Alabama Trained Software Developer (MS), Author, Blogger (https://soulpreaching.com), Husband, Son, Brother, Father.
The Whoop in Black Preaching
I am by no means an expert on whooping, but I noticed that there is little information available on the web so I decided to write up a few posts ont he subject.
Does Sermon Prep Count As Devotional Time?
Do you have devotional time that is just between “You and God” and doesn’t affect your sermon prep? Someone asked… Or more clearly…”Does sermon prep count as devotional time?” Let me say…
Don’t Lie In the Pulpit
You know what.. There is a great temptation to… Lie in the pulpit… I know you ain’t hearing that…your piety forces you to act surprised and to say, “What are you talking…
Why You Are Not Improving
Why are you not improving? OK… That’s a bit presumptuous… The fact is that if you doing it regularly…you probably are improving… But… Are you improving as much as you should?
Seeing Through The Fog
I was driving on a country road in some dense fog early one morning. But I still couldn’t see very far in front of me… But I continued on… Then seemingly out…
Preaching The “But If Not Faith”
What do you do? You don’t feel like preaching… You always had a word to say when it is somebody elses mother who is dead… You have that word in season when…
Preaching is for Real
Preaching is for real… People are going through stuff… Real Stuff… Hard Stuff… And they come…
Ensuring Relevance In Preaching
How do you ensure relevance in your preaching OK..first relevance doesn’t mean that you never preach about the ethical demands of the text. Some folks think that relevance means you only preach…
Sermon Must Have ONE Purpose
What is the purpose of your sermon? Is it to expand the kingdom of God? Is it to comfort the people of God?
Make 2018 Your Best Preaching Year
Look at your sermons over the last year… All of them… Look at what you celebrated… Look at the ethical demands in your sermons…
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…