I had to work very late. It was 1:30am. Yep, 1:30 am. For a guy in his mid-40s, that meant two things. I was going to be sleep walking the next day….
Preaching To Folks Going Through Something
You are preaching to folks in trouble. You ever felt like giving up? Then you know how some of your folks feel right now… You ever felt tired? Then you know how…
Sermon Prep 11 – Add The Celebrative Conclusion
Step 12…Get that celebration… OK, this took a lot longer than I thought it would… In about a month, I will go through these 12 steps again with one extended example. A…
Sermon Prep 10: Get An Introduction
Now…you have developed your points…you are ready to preach… Well… No… We still need two crucial components of the sermon. Today let’s look at one of them. You need to create an…
Sermon Prep Step 9: Fully Develop Points
I hope you all had a great Easter weekend. I was at a homecoming weekend in Huntsville Alabama. OK, folks…let’s go head and knock out the rest of this sermon process. Right…
Step 8: Connect Your Points
Yes sir…we rounding the home stretch now… We have come a good ways… We took a new text… We have exegeted the text…
What is a Synthesis?
What’s going on everybody… I had a question that came in that I thought would be helpful to all of yall… If you have a question…go head and hit reply to this…
Sermon Step 7: Get Your Points
Now… Let’s turn the page… You got your exegesis. Now let’s get ready to craft a sermon. Now there are a lot of ways to structure a sermon…
What Is A Sermon?
Now we are going to stop talking about exegesis. You should have a good handle on your text… Now we are going to talk about putting your sermon together… But before we…
Sermon Prep Step 6 – Emotional Exegesis
We are finishing up the exegesis section of our sermon prep… What you should realize is that interpreting the text is not a simple thing. And you can do a lot more…
Sometimes You Gotta Punt
A while ago I was listening to a football coach. He said, “To have to Punt is not a mistake. Throwing an interception to keep from punting is a mistake.”
Preacher, Have Something To Say
Somebody said, “There are two kinds of preachers–those who have to say something and those who have something to say!” Hmmm…. Do you have something to say? If you don’t… Then you…
Sermon Prep Step 5 – Seeing and Tasting the Text
Now… You have looked at the text… Now…I want you to take your text… REad it…. And now…Think about
Sermon Preparation Step 4 – Read Cross References
Are you ready for Step 4? Now is the time to break out an important book… The book is the Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge. I fact you can complete most of your…