Note Free Preaching – Free Web Seminar
February 4, 2010 – 12:16 am | No Comment

Our Next Web Seminar is this Tuesday at 8:30 PM Central time. We will discuss the four major options for preaching without notes and how they affect your preparation and presentation of sermons. …

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Great Preaching Caught or Taught?
February 3, 2010 – 11:56 am | 3 Comments

schoolstuffWhen I was in my twenties and was attempting to learn to play Jazz one book I read said that “all the answers are in the music.” What the author was saying is that we often ask many questions that can only be found by listening to great musicians “play” the answer. One jazz teaching instructor said that he had a student who was having a hard time playing jazz. The instructor asked the student, how much jazz have you listened to? The student said that he hadn’t listened to any. And then the instructor told the student, you will never be a competent performer if you don’t listen to others perform.

Great preaching, I believe, is just like that. You can learn the fundamentals through books and things. You can find different things to look for from mentors and the like. SoulPreaching.Com can help you, but if you are not listening to preached sermons of pastors and preachers then you will not grow as a preacher the way you wish to grow.

How do you end in a celebrative challenge? I can point you to CL Franklin, but he is gonna show you what I am trying to say. How do you preach a three points and a poem sermon? I can split it up and tell you what each sections does on this site, but when you listen to Frederick D. Haynes III you see exactly what I am talking about. On this site, I can tell you about embedding points in your sermon as you preach, but Jerry D. Black illustrates exactly what I am attempting to teach. In short, great preaching is both taught by homiletics instructors and caught from preachers.

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Stories not Staying on Point
February 2, 2010 – 11:10 am | 2 Comments
Stories not Staying on Point
This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Subtle Errors

I preached a sermon where I told a story. It was a rather common story about flying into a city where the wind was blowing strongly. I described the calm above the clouds, …

Serving Nothing But Desert
January 29, 2010 – 12:11 pm | No Comment
Serving Nothing But Desert
This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Subtle Errors

Some preachers only serve desert. They end up “shouting about nothing.” You know the experience. You have gone to church to hear a word from the Lord and you are shouting. …

Refusing to Serve Desert
January 26, 2010 – 12:03 pm | One Comment
Refusing to Serve Desert
This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Subtle Errors

When I talk about whooping or celebration, some preachers take exception to the idea that we should spend time on such things. They argue that we should just get up there and preach the …

Beating Up the People
January 19, 2010 – 1:24 pm | No Comment
Beating Up the People
This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Subtle Errors

“Stop doing this!” “You don’t do that!” These and other statements are often on the lips of preachers who generally berate the people. Here the preacher simply scolds the people for …

We’ve Come This Far…
January 18, 2010 – 11:36 am | 2 Comments
We’ve Come This Far…

Remembering is an important part of preaching. In some ways we are seeking to help the people recall the magnificent stories of both the Old and the New Testament. But we are not only seeking to recall to mind things that happened to other folks.

No Cross in Preaching
January 18, 2010 – 3:45 am | No Comment
No Cross in Preaching
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Subtle Errors

I was talking to a preacher the other day about “cross-less” preaching. This is the kind of preaching that does not have the Cross of Christ in it.

Help Haiti
January 15, 2010 – 6:10 pm | No Comment
Help Haiti

We all have seen the pain and destruction. We are told that when all is said and done we will have many fatalities and much need. That is where we as Christian preachers must step in.

Ending the Sermon Right – View Replay of Web Seminar
January 14, 2010 – 2:41 am | No Comment
Ending the Sermon Right – View Replay of Web Seminar

This is the Web seminar for Ending The Sermon Right. In it you will learn the principles of putting together an effective sermonic close.

Wrong Truth
January 13, 2010 – 4:42 am | No Comment
Wrong Truth
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Subtle Errors

I want to do a series on how we can preach the truth and yet still end up with a presentation that is unhelpful for the people in front of you. The first …

Call and Response in Preaching
January 10, 2010 – 3:27 pm | No Comment
Call and Response in Preaching
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Finding the Groove In Preaching

Robert Gelinas completes his look at the fundamentals principles of Jazz as it relates to Christian Theology by looking at Call and Response. When one listens to Jazz music, one will hear different instruments communicating and “calling” out to each other.