Video Post – Components of Effective Sermon
What are the 3 components that you must have if you are to preach an effective sermon. And how are the three components related to each other?
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Your Invitation to the Private Party
Bobby “Blue” Bland sings about an exclusive party that is open to anybody who has a “broken heart.” This party is not one that you can buy your way into. …
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BB King and Jesus
B. B. King starts this Blues with a statement that fundamentally reverberates with the essence of the Blues. BB says, “Nobody Loves me But My Mother, And she could be …
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Should I Learn From Preaching Teachers?
An individual asked me that question. And when I opened my mouth to answer, another individual quickly jumped in and gave an answer. He said, “You should never ask a …
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Preaching To Real People
I often talk about preaching to “Real People Going Through Real Issues.” I use the term “Preaching to Grandma and Dem?” Preaching to “Grandma and Dem” is an attempt to …
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Is the Good News Positive?
Mark 16:15 – Proclaim the Good News. One of the most common things I remind preachers of is the importance of the Good News being good. While it is true …
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Practice Makes Perfect
The other day someone called me… “Hey Doc…I need to look at this text from a different angle…can you help me?” Well…I am a different person…so probably will hit it …
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On Homiletic Purpose
On Homiletic Purpose What Is Your Sermon’s Objective? You are about to preach a sermon… Can you sum up the objective of the sermon in a sentence? What would your …
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Apply the Sermon, or Let Someone Else Preach
Apply the sermon…. If you can’t do that… Then let someone preach who can and will… I’ve said it before, but let me say it again… Some preachers are just …
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Keep Moving Forward
I turned 51 years of age today… And Life is good… But it can be rough… Things didn’t go as I had planned always in ministry… Even this ministry…
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Seeing Through The Fog
I was driving on a country road in some dense fog early one morning. I had on my head lights… But I still couldn’t see very far in front of …
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The Element of Preaching You Ain’t Doing
So every so often someone hits me up to help them with a text to preach… Usually these are just a quick look at the text to help folks look …
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Two Hard Texts To Preach
There are two categories of texts that are very hard to preach. They are close to impossible to even read beyond a superficial level. The first category of texts that …
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