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…
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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…
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…
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…
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?…
Guarantee Sermonic Improvement
Preaching is something that gets better with experience. But… What do you do when you aren’t preaching every week? How do you get better? Good question.
What’s Wrong With My Sermon
What’s the matter with my sermon Doc? You know what. In many cases it comes down to one of three things… 1) You didn’t have a clear presentation of the good news….
The Role Of Bad News In Your Sermon
Bad News… “OK, Cox you talk a lot about Good News…But my text has some bad news in it. Are you saying to ignore that?” If it is in the text, you…