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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…
Sermon Step 2 – Original Language Approximation
OK… I have looked at your emails regarding step 1 of the exegetical process… And some of you are off to the races… But some of you are having difficulty visualizing what…
Let’s Create A Sermon
You know what I think will be fun… Let’s work on your sermon… From start to end… Create a sermon… I hear someone asking… “How are you gonna do that over email?…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Ingredients
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 3: The Ingredients When you bake a cake, you have to have the right ingredients. Well, when you are putting together a sermon close, you need…
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…
How Much Time For Sermon Preparation?
Can we complete sermon preparation in four hours? All of us whether in full time or part time ministry have limited time. However, those of us who are called to the preaching…
Naming Your Sermon
Among our most popular posts are the ones on Sermon Titles. There is just not that much information in book form or on the web on the issue. However, one might be…
Six Ways to Preach Your Sermon On The Web
OK, you put a lot of time and effort into constructing and presenting a powerful sermon. You have crafted the language in such a way that the theologically sound message comes through…
John Piper’s Sermon Preparation Method
John Piper has a very interesting sermon preparation method that reminds us that sermon preparation is not a science, but it is an art. You can read his article at this link….
Cotton Candy Sermons?
Is your preaching substantive? Does your preaching foster transformation? In an old post on the Preaching Today Blog that is no longer available. The TheoCentric Preaching Blog quotes an old Preaching Today…
Scriptures as Sermon Illustration Resource
Charles Kohler, in his book how to preach without notes, has written on the importance of using the Scripture as an resource for sermon illustrations. On page 45, he he writes, “one…
What If The People Don’t Respond To Your Sermon?
An interesting question regarding how congregation’s celebrate a sermon came in that I want to address. The writer asked: Trying to find help. I’m not an emotional person, but I am an…