What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
Dr. Gardner Taylor, in How Shall They Preach wrote:
Most of us discover that sermons are born of a mysterious romance between preparation and inspiration. Dr. Paul Scherer used to say that inspiration is 10 percent genius and 90 percent firm application of the seat of the pants to the chair.
James Harris, in Preaching Liberation writes:
The Kingdom is not Good News for Everyone Read MoreJesus didn’t come after John Inquiring about a consensus of beliefs or taking an opinion poll in order to tell folk what they wanted to hear or reinforce what they had already heard. No! Jesus didn’t come “shucking and jiving,” not even praying and singing…He came with a message–a message from God and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Pastor Raleigh Jones discusses the origin and the continued work and progress of the Black Preaching Network.
the Black Preaching Network is a social networking site that allows preachers to meet, greet, and interact on the internet. The site now has over 10,000 members and is growing daily.
You can join now for fee, and I would encourage all preachers to take advantage of this marvelous resource.
Audio 34 – Raliegh Jones Jr from The Black Preaching Network Read MoreSalve is applied to a wound. It covers the wound like a band aid, but it does much more. Certainly it is important to cover the wound. It is important to block things from getting into the wound. Yes that is important, but a healing balm doesn’t just stop there.
A healing balm actually goes into the wound. It attempts healing not from the safety of an outsider looking in, but from within the wound. Balm seeps into the wound and attempts healing there.
Is Your Sermon a Balm or Band-Aid? Read MorePreachers must know themselves, if they are going to be effective preachers of the Gospel. Why is this? The reason is that many preachers can fall into the trap of preaching only to themselves rather than preaching to the people.
Don’t Just Preach to Yourself Read MoreThe power of life and death is in the tongue.
Audio 33 – The Wellspring of Life -Zachary Mills Read MoreWhich of these two preachers are you? Are you the one who continues to get better or the slothful one?
Audio 32 – Two Preachers Read MoreMarva Dawn, in her work A Royal Waste of Time writes:
If television is causing people to be dissatisfied with the worship of our churches, should we change worship to be more like television — or should the splendor of our worship cause people to ask better questions about television?
Paul Scott Wilson, on page 22 of the first edition of the book The Practice of Preaching quotes Phillip Brooks at length in writing:
Sermons as Medicine Read More
The preachers who preach truly great messages often come into the lives of the people. Listen to the preachers who really touch their congregations. Listen to the illustrations used. They are illustrations from regular life. They are illustrations that we all can understand.
The Necessity of Getting With the People in the Sermon Read More
Charles E. Booth wrote: “Therefore, the serious revivalist should always seek to preach as as if life or death hangs in the balance.” He was writing specifically about the revivalist, but it can actually refer to any preacher’s sermon.
You ever been on a job where looking busy was more important than actually accomplishing anything? Many of us at times have succumbed to the temptation to simply look like we were doing something rather than actually doing something. Those of us in the internet world know about spending time on facebook or checking our email versus actually writing the next article and/or recording the next audio. Busywork is a codeword for working but doing nothing. It is a hidden waste of time in that you are doing something, but you accomplish nothing.
The Pulpit is no Place for Busywork – Say Something! Read MoreHow do you find the perfect sermon illustration? Pastor Sherman Haywood Cox II answers this question in this short audio presentation.
Audio 30 – Finding the Perfect Sermon Illustration from Your Own Experience Read MoreThe easy sermon resolution. Do your sermons take seriously the reality of pain?
Audio 29 – The Easy Sermon Resolution Read More