Well, there is a new book that helps us understand what the question even means. Many of the most popular preacher in the African American community could be considered “prosperity preachers.” These…
Category: Issues
Preaching As Providing 3-D Glasses
Someone asked me, “Why do preachers often see something theological in every event?” This is an intriguing question. As I thought about the answer, I was reminded of going to a 3D…
Style In Preaching, Illegitimate?
It is always difficult to provide a critique of just about any practice. I could legitimately provide a critique of preachers who bore their people to sleep by not spending any time…
Are Pastors Kings? Bishop Eddie Long And Pastoral Kingship
OK, I admit this is tangentially related to the point of this blog, but a few of you wanted me to put this up for discussion. Setting aside the obvious discussion about…
Preaching and Using Commentaries
BiblicalPreaching.Net has an interesting post up on the use of commentaries in your preaching. You can find the link to the Biblical Preaching Post here. Mead, the author of the article, notes…
Top 10 Reasons Why You Don’t Know What You Will Preach Tomorrow
Our next Top 10 is about the Saturday Night Special. You know where you up all night Saturday night to preach that Sermon on Sunday Morning. Well without further ado, here are…
Preaching Is Not Your Only Job
We all bring to our reading certain presuppositions. It is always interesting when a pastor comes to SoulPreaching.Com and subtly accuses us of assuming that preaching is all there is to the…
Top 10 Reasons Your Worship Service Ends At 2:30PM
Thought we might have a little fun with this one. So here is my David Letterman impression: 10) The Spirit moved in a mighty way and the people were energized to do…
I Am Brother Cox – Status Worship In The Church
A pastor was beginning a new initiative in a church. The church was to be split up into geographic regions and the associate ministers were to be the “spiritual leader” of each…
Solid Food Sermons Or Soda Pop And Candy?
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 a different…
God’s Grace or Mere Methods?
Willimon, in The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized writes:
The challenge of being an evangelistic preacher is the precarious willingness to allow God to use us to assemble the church, which is often a church we would not have assembled if assembling a church were only a matter of methods of church growth rather than a matter of God’s grace.
Church as Merely Agency
Surface Needs or Deeper Needs
Marva Dawn in her helpful work A Royal “Waste” of Time writes
Many of the bad decisions that are made about worship touch only the surface needs of our society and not the hidden influences or powerful forces that make true worship both difficult and essential.