Yelling Ain’t Gonna Fix A Broken Sermon
“I don’t know what’s wrong, but it just didn’t feel right.” A middle aged man told a woman, presumably his wife, at a Christian book store. Yeah, I know, my …
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Sermon Is The Key To The Worship Service
The sermon is the key to the worship service. People like to hear the music and sometimes it can sooth in ways that only music can soothe. Sometimes prayer touches …
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Celebrate This Sermon, Not Last Week’s Sermon
“God opened that door for ya, ain’t that right?” “God picked you up, ain’t that right?” “God turned you round, ain’t that right?” “Somebody knows bout a God who can …
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Does your sermon have a text?
“Hey Doc, I got a sermon, can you help me find a text so that I can preach it?” A young preacher asked me through email. He was so excited. …
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They May Shout, but do They Remember?
Some folks judge the effectiveness of their sermons by how many people are shouting or running down the isle. Now, there should be an emotional response to our sermons, but …
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Rest and Preaching. Have you Recharged Your Engine?
“I am tired, I just need some time off.” A preacher said to me on a Facebook IM. I asked him, so why don’t you take a day off?” He …
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Emotion in Preaching
Sometimes preachers declare that style is always secondary to content in preaching. The preacher should make sure that the people are receiving good content, and if the people are exposed …
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Are You The Perfect Preacher?
Few will admit it. Preachers often piously state, “We are sinners like everybody else.” Or “Preachers are in need of the same grace we preach.” It is true, most would …
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Loyalty to the Call
Are you ready to preach? If you are the preaching pastor of a church, you probably answered in the affirmative. At least you are in a position to be ready …
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Solving Real Problems in Sermons
Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote an article for Harper’s Magazine entitled What’s the Matter with Preaching?. In the article Fosdick, former pastor of the famed Riverside Church in New York, gives …
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Celebration: Can We Overdo It?
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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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