Where is Your Church?
Charleston SC is certainly a wake up call to the nation… We see Neo-Nazis and member of the KKK and other white nationalist groups seeking to reclaim their supremacy from …
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Prayer And Preaching
Preparation for preaching requires a number of steps. Have you completed all of them? I fear that some preachers come into the preaching moment having done their checklist… Pray for …
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Three Steps to Effective Assistant Ministers
I have been tan assistant for much of my time in ministry. Some pastors have treated me with the utmost respect. I have seen other pastors who treat their assistants almost as slaves, giving them the least desirable jobs and neglecting acknowledgment of the work that they do.
Senior pastors should note that they are not the only ones who are giving their time and energies to the church. Many of these assistants are in part time situations sometimes they are not even be paid at all. But these assistants finish their work in industry and then come to ministry to seek to give their talents to God.
There are, in my estimation, three steps that a senior minister must follow if that minister is to have effective assistant ministers.
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How to Use Another Person’s Sermon
Ok. You have less than a day. You have waited until it is very late. At this point you have a few options and none of them are good.
Can The Internet Replace Church?
I was reading a discussion the other day on social media. The discussion was between a number of church members. One vocal member described that she gets much more out …
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Bible Versions Question
Do you think we should use the King James version when we preach? Or does it really matter if we use something like the NIV? That question comes very often. …
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Growing a Church On “Church Hoppers”
There is a phenomenon entitled “church hopping” that is rampant in many places. Church hoppers are notorious for seeking the next big high in town. They want more entertainment. They want more programs.
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Free Web Seminar – Preaching in the Black Tradition
Click Here to Sign Up For Free Web Seminar Our next web seminar will be the Fundamentals of Preaching in the African American Tradition. In that seminar we will talk …
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Where’s The Beef?
I am showing my age, but I can remember a television commercial where an elderly woman looked at a hamburger that was served to her from a fast food joint …
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Salvation Includes Physical and Mental Liberation
Olin Moyd writes on page 36 of The Sacred Art: Redemption for African Americans meant salvation from states and circumstances as well as salvation from sin, guilt, and the consequence …
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Killing the Communal Aspects of the Gospel
A while back I wrote a post on how we sometimes domesticate Jesus. He becomes a Jesus who always supports our own causes and defeats other’s causes. As I noted …
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Should Women Preach?
The question has come up on many if not most of our web seminars. The question is interesting in my own Soul Preaching ministry in that we are an eclectic …
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Premature Celebration
One of the interesting problems in some preaching is a premature celebration. The people are with the preacher and she or he has the church moving towards a powerful end. …
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Free Audio Question and Answer Call
We are offering a free question and answer call on preaching at 8:30PM Central Time on Febuary 23, 2010.
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