Sometimes preachers declare that style is always secondary to content in preaching. The preacher should make sure that the people are receiving good content, and if the people are exposed to good…
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Ending With the Cross?
One of the most common questions I receive on any subject is “Should you always close your sermon with the cross?” This is a good question that requires some explanation in the…
Closing The Sermon With Power: The Key
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 2: The Key to the Close So what is the key to having a solid ending? I think it is one simple word, Celebration. Let me…
Closing The Sermon With Power: The Key
NOTE: Because you are a member of my email list, I am letting you read this as I write update it. Please put any comments below. Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter…
The Black Tradition – Freedom is at It’s Core
Oh Freedom, Oh Freedom,
Oh Freedom Over Me
And Before I’d Be a Slave
I’d Be Burried in my Grave
And Go Home to my Lord and be Free
Increase in Sermon Intensity not Yelling
In my post discussing Jasper William’s Whooping System, I wrote about the whooping Curve. This is an increase in intensity that subsides slightly as you enter the whoop and then grows again to the final climax.
Are You Serving Slop In the Pulpit?
I was talking to a fellow preacher the other day about the difficulties and challenges of preaching sermons that both touch the people as well as sits under the smile of God….
Prophet or Orator?
In the book Sacred Art: Preaching and Theology in the African American Tradition Olin Moyd quotes Peter T. Forsyth who said: “The Christian preacher is not the successor of the Greek orator, but of the Hebrew prophet. The orator comes with inspiration the prophet comes with a revelation.”
Oratorical Talent Alone is not Preaching
Stealing Another Person’s Sermon – What It Says About You?
Teresa Fry Brown makes a startling statement in her presentation of Charles Adams’ 9 suggestions to preachers found on page 164 and 165 of her book Weary Throats and New Songs. She says:
Is Black Preaching Just For Black People?
One of the most persistent misunderstandings that people have with SoulPreaching.Com is the idea that Soul Preaching is teaching Black people to only preach to Black people. One white preacher asked me…
Style In Preaching, Illegitimate?
It is always difficult to provide a critique of just about any practice. I could legitimately provide a critique of preachers who bore their people to sleep by not spending any time…
Evaluating The Preacher
I was reading H.B.Charles’ article on black preachers and their caricature that may YouTube feeds into. I would encourage you to check out his website. I think that the plethora of “whooping”…
Everyone Doesn’t Respond the Same Way
Always remember that we are seeking to help the congregation digest the information presented in the sermon. There are times when this discomfort is due due to the powerful truth presented. We…
Do You Preach To The Hurting?
Our people come to us with various issues. Some of them may be waiting for a test from the doctor to come back. They don’t know what it will say but there…