Author: Sherman Haywood Cox II

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 down some …

Sometimes you sit down to put a sermon together… And the sermon just flows… The words just come to you… The concepts… You make connections between what Sister Betty said …

How do you judge your community? I remember visiting a church that had the reputation of being warm and loving once… Nobody knew who I was… I Just walked in… …

Many people have sung it… But in my mind I always hear Shirley Caesar’s version from when she was with the Caravans. “God don’t need no coward soldiers.” But in …

He was alone at night… And a man showed up… There was a battle… And epic wrestling match as the man tried to leave and the other just wouldn’t let …

What is more involved? Being a preacher or a Bible Scholar? Which do you think is harder? Which takes more work? Take a moment and answer… Go head…I’ll wait… …

You ever been scared? Fear serves a purpose, it can actually be beneficial. It is beneficial to be scared of falling off the side of that building… So we don’t …

I have a text and a theme, how am I supposed to preach this? Doesn’t happen all the time, but it does happen from time to time. “They gave me …

Preaching is for real… People are going through real stuff… And they come… Sister Betty just got a cancer diagnosis… And what are you preaching? Brother Joe just found out …

A Preacher Ain’t a Bully You can almost always tell when a preacher is verbally beating up on a member. “Don’t send me an email that says XXXXX…” Huh? So …

What are you preaching this week? What are you preaching next week? What are you preaching next month? Most of you can answer the first question right now. Less of …

How Do you insure Relevance Relevance doesn’t mean that you never preach about the ethical demands of the text. Relevance simply means that you preach in a way that is …