Sometimes preachers declare that style is always secondary to content in preaching. The preacher should make sure that the people are receiving good content, and if the people are exposed to good…
Are You The Perfect Preacher?
Few will admit it. Preachers often piously state, “We are sinners like everybody else.” Or “Preachers are in need of the same grace we preach.” It is true, most would agree we…
Loyalty to the Call
Are you ready to preach? If you are the preaching pastor of a church, you probably answered in the affirmative. At least you are in a position to be ready very soon….
Solving Real Problems in Sermons
Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote an article for Harper’s Magazine entitled What’s the Matter with Preaching?. In the article Fosdick, former pastor of the famed Riverside Church in New York, gives his principle…
Celebration: Can We Overdo It?
To begin with, I want to assert that celebration is a good thing, but can too much of a good thing become a bad thing?
Closing The Sermon With Power: Reduce Vocabulary
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 7: Reduce Vocabulary When closing your sermon you should reduce complexity as noted before. Included in this is to limit the extent of your vocabulary. What…
Practical or Doctrinal Sermons?
The Biblical Preaching Blog has a post up that decries how some seek to break the practical from the theological in sermons. He tells the story of a preacher who said: I…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Reduce Complexity
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 6: Reduce Complexity OK, you have become the actor in the sermon. What else can you do to help your delivery of your sermonic. close? The…
Ending With the Cross?
One of the most common questions I receive on any subject is “Should you always close your sermon with the cross?” This is a good question that requires some explanation in the…
Preachers are at War
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.”…
Closing The Sermon With Power: What Do You Do?
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 5: Become The Actor Ok, we know what we are trying to do, what are the tools to actually do it? How can we actually turn…
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: Ingredients
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 3: The Ingredients When you bake a cake, you have to have the right ingredients. Well, when you are putting together a sermon close, you need…
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…