In my sermon consulting work, sometimes individuals indicate difficulty finding something to “celebrate.” As you know, celebration is the time in the sermon where we intellectually experience the truth of the message….
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How to Preach Transformative Sermons
Great preaching has in mind not merely inspiration, but the preaching of transformative sermons. We do not desire to make people who merely know more of the Bible, although that is important…
Stylistic Exegesis For Preaching Powerful Sermons
Exegesis is simply a close reading of the scripture so that you can extract the meaning from the text. Before you can preach a text you must understand the text. You can…
Supercharge Your Sermons Special Discount
Hello Supercharge Your Sermons Members, September is our Fourth Anniversary at SoulPreaching.Com and we are going to have a special discount on our ebooks for the occasion. This will probably be $50…
Audio 36 – Celebration and Doctrinal Sermons
Doctrinal Sermons need celebration just like any other kind of sermon. In this audio, Elder Cox speaks of the importance of addressing both the emotive and the intellectual dimensions of humanity in…
Become the Message of Your Sermons
How does one grab the moment and preach effective sermons? Many of us who teach preachers spend a lot of time talking about sermonic preparation. We discuss how to effectively exegete a…
Selling Sermons – Or Give Them Away Free?
If you sell your audio sermons that were recorded by your church or non-profit ministry, you might want to read this article. The article talks about the common practice of preaching your…
Stories in Sermons Don’t Always Work
A few weeks ago, I heard a sermon by a preacher who obviously had heard of the benefits of stories in effective sermons. However, a particular illustration had great difficulties for the…
The Three Intertwining Stories to Exegete for Effective Sermons
On this site and in other places, we spend a lot of time discussing the need to exegete the scripture for effective preaching. This is a very important dimension in sermon preparation….
Preparatory Plan – Supercharged Sermons Phase 1
In the next seven posts we will take you step by step through a system of sermon preparation that is based in the African American Tradition. I have called it the “Supercharge Your Sermons” system. The first phase is to have preparatory planning.
It’s Coming – Supercharge Your Sermons
Hello,
I have decided to take my training at Vanderbilt Divinity School and my preaching experience, as well as my three years of being the primary contributor to SoulPreaching.Com, and boil it down to a 6 month online preaching course!!
The name of the program is: “Supercharge Your Sermons.” This promises to be the primary online preaching course that teaches preaching in the African American Tradition!
Sermons as Medicine
Paul Scott Wilson, on page 22 of the first edition of the book The Practice of Preaching quotes Phillip Brooks at length in writing:
Slow Down and Listen to Preach Effective Sermons
Kirk Byron Jones, in his book Jazz of Preaching writes: “Slow down and listen in life, in sermons preparation, and in the pulpit.”