OK…Biblical interpretation is important…how to do it is important… Teach it to your people… Here are a few books that are accessible to laity that you can use to teach it to…
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Praying the Bible
There are a number of methods of prayer. Some are very structured and some are less structured. Perhaps one of the most popular ones is to use The Lord’s Prayer as a…
Evaluating A Sermon Outline Part 2
OK…the sermon you got your eye on is one sermon and not multiple ones… That’s cool… But you still don’t know if you can preach it… Now there are two related questions…
Sermon Methodology In A Nutshell
You want a quick way to put together a sermon? Someone asked that I repost this…so here it is… You give THREE ANSWERS TO ONE QUESTION. This is an easy way to…
Preach Too Long?
Thou Shalt Not Preach Too Long. Yeah….you don’t believe me… Yeah…you mad at me… Yeah…you say God told you to preach 4 hours and you gonna follow God… OK…that’s cool… But you…
Inspiration is Coming
Are you Ready for Inspiration? You know what? The best sermonic ideas are not when you are sitting down trying to come up with them… Yes you should study… Yes you should…
Show Your Work
Do you show your work in your preaching? OK… I’m trying to think through this…so bear with me… What you talkign bout Cox? OK…let me try this… How do your people know…
Preaching to Wake Up Your People
I had to work very late. It was 1:30am. Yep, 1:30 am. For a guy in his mid-40s, that meant two things. I was going to be sleep walking the next day….
Preaching To Folks Going Through Something
You are preaching to folks in trouble. You ever felt like giving up? Then you know how some of your folks feel right now… You ever felt tired? Then you know how…
Sermon Prep 11 – Add The Celebrative Conclusion
Step 12…Get that celebration… OK, this took a lot longer than I thought it would… In about a month, I will go through these 12 steps again with one extended example. A…
Sermon Prep 10: Get An Introduction
Now…you have developed your points…you are ready to preach… Well… No… We still need two crucial components of the sermon. Today let’s look at one of them. You need to create an…
Sermon Prep Step 9: Fully Develop Points
I hope you all had a great Easter weekend. I was at a homecoming weekend in Huntsville Alabama. OK, folks…let’s go head and knock out the rest of this sermon process. Right…
Step 8: Connect Your Points
Yes sir…we rounding the home stretch now… We have come a good ways… We took a new text… We have exegeted the text…
What is a Synthesis?
What’s going on everybody… I had a question that came in that I thought would be helpful to all of yall… If you have a question…go head and hit reply to this…