Have you ever preached a sermon devoid of any theology? No teaching about God… No teaching about humanity’s relation to God… No theology at all? Well, you may disagree with me… But…
Practice Preaching Makes Perfect Preaching
Nothing… Nothing… Nothing beats preaching through your sermon ahead of time… Preaching through your sermon in your practice room will let you know about structural issues in your sermon… Preaching through your…
You…Go…
“Go…” A voice spoke from the darkness into his inner being… “Go?, Go where?” “Just Go… I’ll tell you when you get there.” Hmm… You ever felt like the call of God…
Your Preaching Gotta Take Them Higher
Oh Freedom… Oh Freedom… Oh Freedom over me… And before I’ll be a slave I’ll be buried in my grave And go home to my Lord and be free… *** What was…
A Secret Formula
The secret sermon formula… You ever heard a powerful preacher and then take his or her preaching seminar? Some of them are pretty good… But I have to admit… Some of them…
Make Sure The Truth Cuts And Not You
We preachers have to come to terms with a few important points. First of all, everybody ain’t gonna like what you throwing down… In fact, if everybody loves all your sermons and…
Don’t Let Story Overpower
As I was working through a sermon analysis that I am sending out in the Whooping With Integrity mailing list, I was reminded again of the power of just going through the…
You Don’t Have to Yell
You don’t have to yell when you preach, but you can increase intensity… What? Increase intensity but not yelling? What are you talking about? OK, sit down for a moment and let’s…
Preaching to Wake Up Your People
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…