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Curiosity And the Preacher
October 28, 2009 – 6:36 am | No Comment
Curiosity And the Preacher

The truly great preachers have a curiosity to life. They want to see how things work. They want to look beneath the surface. They are concerned about more than just skimming the …

Will The Preacher Shut Up?
October 27, 2009 – 12:07 pm | One Comment
Will The Preacher Shut Up?

H. Beecher Hicks, in Preaching Through the Storm, writes about three things that attempt to force the preacher into being quiet when they need to speak. Are you being silenced?
The first of these is the …

Selling Sermons – Or Give Them Away Free?
October 25, 2009 – 5:15 pm | One Comment
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 sermon at church, …

Stories in Sermons Don’t Always Work
October 25, 2009 – 5:10 pm | No Comment
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 sermon. It actually …

Making Room for Celebration
October 25, 2009 – 5:06 pm | No Comment
Making Room for Celebration

The other day a preacher contacted me about a critique of his sermon. The sermon’s biggest drawback was the lack of a celebration, and yet the preacher was very animated and was at a high …

Evaluating a Sermon Outline
October 17, 2009 – 7:31 am | No Comment
Evaluating a Sermon  Outline

There are multitudes of sermon outline sites. Some of them require you to pay for the outline, others are membership sites that give you access to thousands of outlines, and still others are completely free.

The Three Intertwining Stories to Exegete for Effective Sermons
October 10, 2009 – 8:50 am | No Comment
The Three Intertwining Stories to Exegete for Effective Sermons

On this site and in other places, we spend a lot of time discussing exegeting the scripture for effective preaching. This is a very important dimension to sermon preparation. However, you must also …

The Irrelevant Celebration
September 8, 2009 – 5:30 pm | One Comment
The Irrelevant Celebration

It is pretty rampant. It steals the point from the people’s minds and reinforces the same tired point that you have preached every week. It gets the people to shout, but doesn’t help them live …

Trusting Your Stuff: How to Know When Your Sermon is Ready
September 5, 2009 – 7:18 pm | No Comment
Trusting Your Stuff: How to Know When Your Sermon is Ready

One question that often comes up is “When is my sermon ready to preach?” This is not an easy question to answer for a few reasons. One reason it is difficult is because some preachers never spend enough time in preparation. They allow the demands of ministry to overpower their need to preach effective sermons.

How Many Texts to Preach?
September 3, 2009 – 6:08 pm | No Comment
How Many Texts to Preach?

Preaching multiple texts can derail your sermon. It should be very clear to everyone who is listening what your main point and your main text is. If you have too many competing points or too many texts, the people will get lost and will simply choose one of the points to focus on, or check out and wait until you start whooping (or whatever kind of celebration you do) to check back in…

Use Other Texts Strategically