What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
Step 12…Get that celebration… OK, this took a lot longer than I thought it would… In about a month, I will go through these 12 steps again with one extended …
Sermon Prep 11 – Add The Celebrative Conclusion Read More
Now…you have developed your points…you are ready to preach… Well… No… We still need two crucial components of the sermon. Today let’s look at one of them. You need to …
Sermon Prep 10: Get An Introduction Read More
I hope you all had a great Easter weekend. I was at a homecoming weekend in Huntsville Alabama. OK, folks…let’s go head and knock out the rest of this sermon …
Sermon Prep Step 9: Fully Develop Points Read More
Yes sir…we rounding the home stretch now… We have come a good ways… We took a new text… We have exegeted the text…
Step 8: Connect Your Points Read More
What’s going on everybody… I had a question that came in that I thought would be helpful to all of yall… If you have a question…go head and hit reply …
What is a Synthesis? Read More
Now… Let’s turn the page… You got your exegesis. Now let’s get ready to craft a sermon. Now there are a lot of ways to structure a sermon…
Sermon Step 7: Get Your Points Read More
Now we are going to stop talking about exegesis. You should have a good handle on your text… Now we are going to talk about putting your sermon together… But …
What Is A Sermon? Read More
We are finishing up the exegesis section of our sermon prep… What you should realize is that interpreting the text is not a simple thing. And you can do a …
Sermon Prep Step 6 – Emotional Exegesis Read More
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.”
Sometimes You Gotta Punt Read More
Somebody said, “There are two kinds of preachers–those who have to say something and those who have something to say!” Hmmm…. Do you have something to say? If you don’t… …
Preacher, Have Something To Say Read More
Now… You have looked at the text… Now…I want you to take your text… REad it…. And now…Think about
Sermon Prep Step 5 – Seeing and Tasting the Text Read More
Are you ready for Step 4? Now is the time to break out an important book… The book is the Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge. I fact you can complete most …
Sermon Preparation Step 4 – Read Cross References Read More
OK… I have looked at your emails regarding step 1 of the exegetical process… And some of you are off to the races… But some of you are having difficulty …
Sermon Step 2 – Original Language Approximation Read More
Read The Text Closely. OK folks… It looks like yall are ready for this thing. We are going to take the next 2 weeks and go through the construction of …
Read The Text…I Mean You Read More