What Are You Preaching This Week?
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 …
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How Do You Insure Relevance?
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 …
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Stop Complaining and Start Preparing
He was always complaining about not getting enough preaching engagements… And then his time came… And you know what? He laid an egg… He obviously wasn’t ready and it showed. …
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A Sermon Without Theology
Have you ever preached a sermon devoid of any theology? No teaching about God… No teaching about humanity’s relation to God… No theology at all? Well, you may disagree with …
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Practice Preaching Makes Perfect Preaching
Nothing… Nothing… Nothing beats preaching through your sermon ahead of time… Preaching through your sermon in your practice room will let you know about structural issues in your sermon… Preaching …
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You…Go…
“Go…” A voice spoke from the darkness into his inner being… “Go?, Go where?” “Just Go… I’ll tell you when you get there.” Hmm… You ever felt like the call …
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Your Preaching Gotta Take Them Higher
Oh Freedom… Oh Freedom… Oh Freedom over me… And before I’ll be a slave I’ll be buried in my grave And go home to my Lord and be free… *** …
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A Secret Formula
The secret sermon formula… You ever heard a powerful preacher and then take his or her preaching seminar? Some of them are pretty good… But I have to admit… Some …
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Make Sure The Truth Cuts And Not You
We preachers have to come to terms with a few important points. First of all, everybody ain’t gonna like what you throwing down… In fact, if everybody loves all your …
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Don’t Let Story Overpower
As I was working through a sermon analysis that I am sending out in the Whooping With Integrity mailing list, I was reminded again of the power of just going …
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You Don’t Have to Yell
You don’t have to yell when you preach, but you can increase intensity… What? Increase intensity but not yelling? What are you talking about? OK, sit down for a moment …
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Preaching to Wake Up Your People
I had to work very late. It was 1:30am. Yep, 1:30 am. For a guy in his mid-40s, that meant two things. I was going to be sleep walking the …
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Preaching To Folks Going Through Something
You are preaching to folks in trouble. You ever felt like giving up? Then you know how some of your folks feel right now… You ever felt tired? Then you …
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Sermon Prep 11 – Add The Celebrative Conclusion
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 …
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