Every time you step into the pulpit, you are in a battle. You have to understand that. You have an enemy who is as a “roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.”…
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Closing The Sermon With Power: Assumptions For A Powerful Close.
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 4: My Assumptions for a Powerful Close So now you have the ingredients. There are a few things that we will repeat that you must have…
Closing The Sermon With Power: The Key
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 2: The Key to the Close So what is the key to having a solid ending? I think it is one simple word, Celebration. Let me…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Prerequisites
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 1: Prerequisites to a Powerful Close How do you end a sermon with power? You are asking this because innately you understand that no matter how…
Does Someone Need To Hear This?
You worked hard to put together a sermon. You studied the text. You assembled some funny anecdotes and pertinent illustrations. And now you are ready to preach. You put powerful emphasis on…
Coming Up With Sermon Ideas
One of my professors gave me a few approaches to generate sermonic ideas. The first approach would be to take the author of the Biblical passage or one of the characters in…
You Got A Theme – How Do You Get A Sermon?
OK, this is one of those questions where our practice is often at odds with what we say we do. What am I talking about? The big question, WHAT COMES FIRST, THE…
Illustrations and the Whole Congregation
Have you ever really analyzed your illustrations? I suspect most preachers don’t. I did it one time and found that the vast majority of my illustrations were largely about men. They were…
The Role Of Humanity In Preaching
Some believe that preaching is where the preacher goes off to talk to God with Bible in hand. Then God gives a message to the preacher. Then the preacher comes to the…
Practical Preaching Or Kingdom Preaching?
Many call for practical sermons. I have made the same call on occasion. However, the term “practical sermons” means different things to different people. For example, some preachers use the term to…