The Shout Aint Enough
Great preaching must engage the mind. I don’t know how many times I have heard a preacher get up there and simply attempt to engage the emotions. These preachers get …
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Moving On
As you can see, we have not had many updates in previous months. This is due to the time requriements to keep a site such as this updated and moving …
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Don’t Rush, Timing is Everything
Great preaching is more than about the transfer of knowledge, but it is about facilitating an experience with God by God’s word. To accomplish this task some attention needs to …
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Does Preaching Matter?
It is surprising how many preachers think that preaching really doesn’t matter much. Some think that there are other more fruitful ways to minister. They say that one on one …
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Audio 36 – Celebration and Doctrinal Sermons
Doctrinal Sermons need celebration just like any other kind of sermon. In this audio, Elder Cox speaks of the importance of addressing both the emotive and the intellectual dimensions of …
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What Are You Celebrating?
Here is an interesting exercise that might help you in your preaching. Take a number of your sermons. Try to find the purpose of each one. Then ask yourself, what …
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Be You – Don’t Copy
The other day I was listening to a preacher. After about 5 minutes I realized that his presentation style, rate of speech, and sermonic structure were copied from a popular …
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Salvation Includes Physical and Mental Liberation
Olin Moyd writes on page 36 of The Sacred Art: Redemption for African Americans meant salvation from states and circumstances as well as salvation from sin, guilt, and the consequence …
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Killing the Communal Aspects of the Gospel
A while back I wrote a post on how we sometimes domesticate Jesus. He becomes a Jesus who always supports our own causes and defeats other’s causes. As I noted …
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Should Women Preach?
The question has come up on many if not most of our web seminars. The question is interesting in my own Soul Preaching ministry in that we are an eclectic …
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Preaching When You Dont Feel Like Preaching
How can you preach when you don’t feel like preaching? Someone asked that question a while ago. And this is a very interesting question. Let me first of all say …
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How To Preach Without Converting Anybody
A pastor friend of mine told me that there are many so called “great” preachers who preach “great” sermons, but their preaching does not seem to have the conversion power only given by the Holy Ghost.
Too many preachers are simply preaching sermons about “God hooking you up.” Their sermons are about what humanity is going to get. It is about the money, jobs, fame, etc that God has for those who are God’s own.
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Relevance Through Mindset
To this point we have looked at poor methods of relevance. Now I want to look at a better method. This is where you take the doctrine and show its …
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Ignoring Relevance
Another approach to relevance that preachers use is the ignoring relevance approach. Here you don’t even worry about relevance. Instead of telling folks that something is relevant because you must …
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