Are Most Preachers Illegitimate?
Over the last couple of weeks about three or four people emailed me messages that had much in common with each other. I can summarize the messages as follows: Most …
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Is My Sermon Done Yet?
Someone emailed me the following question I never know when my sermon is ready for preaching. I think I exegete the scripture adequately and spend a lot of time in …
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Cotton Candy Sermons?
Is your preaching substantive? Does your preaching foster transformation? In an old post on the Preaching Today Blog that is no longer available. The TheoCentric Preaching Blog quotes an old …
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How To Title the Black Sermon
Sermon Titling is something that some consider to be irrelevant while others consider it to be very important. Sermons in the Black Preaching Tradition are often known to be titled well. Sometimes a great title will evoke praise or contemplation from the congregation before the sermon even begins. Because of this I have spent a little time thinking about titles. You can find interesting posts on sermon titles on this website here.
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Don’t Preach More Than One Sermon
In my sermon consulting work, one of the deficiencies that I often find in sermons is that they often have a sermon that is more than one sermon. Preaching more …
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How To Analyze A Sermon
I will never forget my first homiletic class where the instructor told us to “analyze a sermon.” I had no idea where to begin and the whole idea seemed difficult. …
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Saved By The Same Gospel We Preach To Others
One of my pastors used to pray “Lord save us by the same gospel we preach to others.” It is an almost trivial truth, but we need remember that the …
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Scriptures as Sermon Illustration Resource
Charles Kohler, in his book how to preach without notes, has written on the importance of using the Scripture as an resource for sermon illustrations. On page 45, he he …
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Do You Have To Know Greek And Hebrew To Preach Effectively?
I often get the question, “Do you have to know the original languages to preach effective sermons?” Often the question comes either from someone who knows the languages and thinks …
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The People Need Sound Doctrine
Great preaching has a practical bent. It helps real people deal with real issues that they deal with in real life. Often preachers when confronted with this reality will skimp …
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Are Preacher’s Merely Hypemen?
A few posts ago, I argued that we cannot trust “shouting” or other outward manifestations of congregational interaction as a valid means of determining if the message was an effective …
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What If The People Don’t Respond To Your Sermon?
An interesting question regarding how congregation’s celebrate a sermon came in that I want to address. The writer asked: Trying to find help. I’m not an emotional person, but I …
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Black Preaching that Comforts the Afflicted – “Make it Plain!”
There comes a time when all practitioners of Black Preaching must take on the pastoral role in the pulpit and preach a word of comfort. Great preaching must have a …
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In this video, Elder Cox discusses one of the errors that is prevalent in some of our pulpits.
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