Someone sent in the following question that I thought might be of interest to the community as a whole: What are your thoughts on Preaching on Theme topics ( Pastor Anniversary, Church…
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Improving Your Craft….How Pious Ideas Can Kill Preaching Improvement
We get emails and comments all the time from readers. I love to receive them and try to answer them if I can. Many are happy with the “down to earth” and…
Preaching With Your Senses
Preachers determine the meaning of scripture so that they can convey that meaning to the congregation in the preaching moment. Preachers go to considerable lengths to make sure that they preach the…
Many Want To Hear Something Significant
I was talking to one of our readers during my office hours and the subject came to the preachers who get all the invitations. In some cases they are the ones who…
Is Black Preaching Just For Black People?
One of the most persistent misunderstandings that people have with SoulPreaching.Com is the idea that Soul Preaching is teaching Black people to only preach to Black people. One white preacher asked me…
Are You Feeding The Sheep or Bleeding On The Sheep?
One of our readers, C. Johnson, wrote a perceptive comment which reads in part:
To a large degree, what is said, heard and done (in the pulpit) is all prepackaged. Even the words that are used, are for the most part scripted long before a text is exegeted and expounded.
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Too many who populate pulpits reduce the Bible to the script of the people we serve and as a result, lead them into both mediocrity and blindness.