What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
This is another one of the most popular questions. Whenever I have a seminar or receive questions through the mail, someone asks, “How do I know my sermon is ready …
When Are You Finished Preparing Your Sermon? Read More
I try to read every email that comes to SoulPreaching.Com even from those who are leaving the email list. Sometimes the reasons why they leave are simply because of having …
Solid Food Sermons Or Soda Pop And Candy? Read More
We are going to begin a series of posts about the myths of Black Preaching. There are a number of these that we need to clarify if we are going …
Black Preaching Myths – Black Preaching And Style Read More
It is interesting how many budding preachers turn on the television and think that copying the various personalities is effective preaching.  They end up with superficial copies of some preachers. …
You Need Training – A Basic Program Read More
I was talking to a laymember the other day who was very excited about a sermon he had heard. The member gave me all four of the points of the …
How One Sermon Was Remembered Read More
A few weeks ago, I heard a sermon by a preacher who obviously had heard of the benefits of stories in effective sermons. However, a particular illustration had great difficulties …
Stories in Sermons Don’t Always Work Read More
On this site and in other places, we spend a lot of time discussing the need to exegete the scripture for effective preaching. This is a very important dimension in …
The Three Intertwining Stories to Exegete for Effective Sermons Read MoreIt is pretty rampant. It steals the point from the people’s minds and reinforces the same tired point that you have preached every week. It gets the people to shout, …
The Irrelevant Celebration Read MoreThis is a common question. How do I preach doctrine. We have some beliefs as Christians that we need to preach. Doctrines such as the deity of Christ, Salvation by Faith, and perhaps the Trinity.
Related to this are the questions from various tradtions. For example, a Pentecostal asked about preaching on the Gifts including speaking in tongues. An Adventist asked about preaching the Sabbath. A Holiness person wanted to know about preaching on Biblical Holiness.
Subscribers to the SoulPreacher have already received this article in the 31st edition of the Soul Preacher email magazine. In addition, those who have attended our second web seminars have seen the expansion of this concept. However, everyone else can now learn from this very powerful way of looking at exegesis of the text for preaching.
Exegeting a Text of Scripture – The Four Waves Read MorePreaching in the Black Tradition – A downloadable report that describes the dimensions of preachin in the Black tradition.
Preaching in the Black Tradition Read MoreWilliam Willimon in The Intrusive Word writes that “We ought to preach as if we were opening a package that could be packed with dynamite.” By that he means that we should expect dislocation, surprises, and jolts. Too often we package our sermons in a neatly finished package where we know all the answers and God always acts the way we expect. We create a world in the sermon that is much unlike our own world.
I feel like starting with the quote from Mark Twain who said: “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” There are many who think that the three points and a poem deserve to fall off the landscape of possible sermonic choices.
Three Points and a Poem – Revisited Read MoreI just realized that I do not have any posts that give an outline of my method for exegesis. Here is the basic process.