
Seeing Through The Fog
I was driving on a country road in some dense fog early one morning. But I still couldn’t see very far in front of me… But I continued on… Then …
Seeing Through The Fog Read MoreWhat The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
I was driving on a country road in some dense fog early one morning. But I still couldn’t see very far in front of me… But I continued on… Then …
Seeing Through The Fog Read MoreWhat do you do? You don’t feel like preaching… You always had a word to say when it is somebody elses mother who is dead… You have that word in …
Preaching The “But If Not Faith” Read MorePreaching is for real… People are going through stuff… Real Stuff… Hard Stuff… And they come…
Preaching is for Real Read MoreHow do you ensure relevance in your preaching OK..first relevance doesn’t mean that you never preach about the ethical demands of the text. Some folks think that relevance means you …
Ensuring Relevance In Preaching Read MoreWhat is the purpose of your sermon? Is it to expand the kingdom of God? Is it to comfort the people of God?
Sermon Must Have ONE Purpose Read MoreLook at your sermons over the last year… All of them… Look at what you celebrated… Look at the ethical demands in your sermons…
Make 2018 Your Best Preaching Year Read MoreWho creates a sermon? 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 …
Who Creates the Sermon? Read MoreFirst Step… What is the Text Saying… Sometimes we jump to Commentaries… Sometimes we jump to dictionaries…
The First Step To All Sermon Preparation Read MoreA 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 Have to Punt Read MoreThere are two kinds of texts that are very hard to exegete and preach. The first are those that you have read so often, you think you already know what …
Preaching Texts That Are Hard To Preach Read MoreAbram’s folk were on a trip from Ur of the Chaldeans to Canaan. But they stopped on the way… They didn’t get to Canaan because they stopped in Haran. The …
Your Call Will Return so Follow It Read More“It’s their loss…” You ever heard any preacher say that when folks didn’t want to hear them preach? Have you ever said or thought it? The preacher who says this …
Why They May Not Want To Hear You Preach Read MoreWe all have found ourselves in the position of wondering why our ministry hasn’t gone forward in the way that we thought it aught… Many of us have gotten some …
When Doors Of Ministry Don’t Open Read MoreTactics don’t replace Power Exegesis, you better do it. But it don’t replace power… Solid Sermon Construction. Check. We need that, but it don’t replace power…
Tactics Never Replace Power Read More