You ever been on a job where looking busy was more important than actually accomplishing anything? Many of us at times have succumbed to the temptation to simply look like we were doing something rather than actually doing something. Those of us in the internet world know about spending time on facebook or checking our email versus actually writing the next article and/or recording the next audio. Busywork is a codeword for working but doing nothing. It is a hidden waste of time in that you are doing something, but you accomplish nothing.
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.
Audio 30 – Finding the Perfect Sermon Illustration from Your Own Experience
How do you find the perfect sermon illustration? Pastor Sherman Haywood Cox II answers this question in this short audio presentation.
Audio 29 – The Easy Sermon Resolution
The easy sermon resolution. Do your sermons take seriously the reality of pain?
Pathetic or Transformative Relevance
James Forbes, in his very helpful work The Holy Spirit and Preaching writes: “Preaching under the anointing of the Spirit deeply touches the hearer, evoking either acceptance or rejection of the gospel.”
Sometimes We Motivate Rather than Preach
Slow Down and Listen to Preach Effective Sermons
Kirk Byron Jones, in his book Jazz of Preaching writes: “Slow down and listen in life, in sermons preparation, and in the pulpit.”
Preaching for Transformation
James Harris writes:
Those who worship God week after week should not display the same actions and behavior as those who do not. Their perspective and attitude should change, and they should also be able to help to change others.
God’s Grace or Mere Methods?
Willimon, in The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized writes:
The challenge of being an evangelistic preacher is the precarious willingness to allow God to use us to assemble the church, which is often a church we would not have assembled if assembling a church were only a matter of methods of church growth rather than a matter of God’s grace.
Church as Merely Agency
Leaving the Gospel’s Oddity In the Sermon
William Willimon writes in The Intrusive Word:
Preaching Both Sides
Olin Moyd, in The Sacred Art: Preaching and Theology in the African American Tradition writes:
Exegeting a Text of Scripture – The Four Waves
Subscribers to the SoulPreacher have already received this article in the 31st edition of the Soul Preacher email magazine. In addition, those who have attended our second web seminars have seen the expansion of this concept. However, everyone else can now learn from this very powerful way of looking at exegesis of the text for preaching.
Preaching in the Black Tradition
Preaching in the Black Tradition – A downloadable report that describes the dimensions of preachin in the Black tradition.
Interpreting a Text for Preaching – Web Seminar
Here is our second WebSeminar. How to exegete a text for preaching. You can download the powerpoint at this link.
How Many Sermons Do You Really Preach?
Over at the Biblical Preaching website there is an interesting question. “Are there really only three scriptures in the Bible?” He notes that if you listen to most of the sermons presented by preachers you will see a limited number of sermons. The outlines are as follows:
- Jesus died for your sins, repent and believe, when you die you’ll go to heaven
- Read the Bible more, pray more, evangelize more
- Have more faith, be more obedient.