To begin with, I want to assert that celebration is a good thing, but can too much of a good thing become a bad thing?
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Closing The Sermon With Power: Reduce Vocabulary
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 7: Reduce Vocabulary When closing your sermon you should reduce complexity as noted before. Included in this is to limit the extent of your vocabulary. What…
Practical or Doctrinal Sermons?
The Biblical Preaching Blog has a post up that decries how some seek to break the practical from the theological in sermons. He tells the story of a preacher who said: I…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Reduce Complexity
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 6: Reduce Complexity OK, you have become the actor in the sermon. What else can you do to help your delivery of your sermonic. close? The…
Ending With the Cross?
One of the most common questions I receive on any subject is “Should you always close your sermon with the cross?” This is a good question that requires some explanation in the…
Preachers are at War
Every time you step into the pulpit, you are in a battle. You have to understand that. You have an enemy who is as a “roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.”…
Closing The Sermon With Power: What Do You Do?
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 5: Become The Actor Ok, we know what we are trying to do, what are the tools to actually do it? How can we actually turn…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Assumptions For A Powerful Close.
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 4: My Assumptions for a Powerful Close So now you have the ingredients. There are a few things that we will repeat that you must have…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Ingredients
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 3: The Ingredients When you bake a cake, you have to have the right ingredients. Well, when you are putting together a sermon close, you need…
Closing The Sermon With Power: The Key
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 2: The Key to the Close So what is the key to having a solid ending? I think it is one simple word, Celebration. Let me…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Prerequisites
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 1: Prerequisites to a Powerful Close How do you end a sermon with power? You are asking this because innately you understand that no matter how…
Where does a Preacher Keep The Notes?
OK, if you are using limited notes, where do you keep them? 1. In the Pulpit Here the preacher places the limited notes on the pulpit. When done well, the audience may…
Practicing Preaching and Christian Living – Lessons from the Trumpet
Well I spent a significant amount of time practicing the fundamentals of music. I played many scales and arpeggios (chords). I turned them into patterns and exercises. I played major and minor scales. I played them from memory as well as sight read the scales and patterns. I would play many different patterns and piece them together in different ways. I played them high, play them low, play them staccato, play them legato, play them whole notes, half notes, quarter, etc.
The Spiritual Battle in the Pulpit
Peter Mead, of the Biblical Preaching blog, is starting a series of posts on Spiritual Warfare and the Preacher. You can find his first entry at this link.
In this post Mead provides three things that Satan uses to battle preachers. These are:
- Pride
- The Sin that easily besets us
- Distraction