When I was back in seminary, I remember going to Dr. Brad Braxton’s Introduction to Preaching Class at Vanderbilt Divinity School. I was excited in that Brad Braxton was an is an…
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Exercise all the Preaching Muscles
Whatever muscles you exercise will be your strongest muscles. I remember growing up watching professional wrestling. The well balanced wrestler stood up with a solid muscular build the top of the head…
Should I Learn From Preaching Teachers?
An individual asked me that question. And when I opened my mouth to answer, another individual quickly jumped in and gave an answer. He said, “You should never ask a man that…
Preaching To Real People
I often talk about preaching to “Real People Going Through Real Issues.” I use the term “Preaching to Grandma and Dem?” Preaching to “Grandma and Dem” is an attempt to insure that…
The Element of Preaching You Ain’t Doing
So every so often someone hits me up to help them with a text to preach… Usually these are just a quick look at the text to help folks look at the…
Importance of Preaching To Your Self
Sermon Prep can be grueling and not always a spiritual experience. So, you prayed deeply at the beginning of your sermon prep process. You asked the Lord to give you a text….
The Whoop in Black Preaching
I am by no means an expert on whooping, but I noticed that there is little information available on the web so I decided to write up a few posts ont he subject.
Preaching The “But If Not Faith”
What do you do? You don’t feel like preaching… You always had a word to say when it is somebody elses mother who is dead… You have that word in season when…
Preaching is for Real
Preaching is for real… People are going through stuff… Real Stuff… Hard Stuff… And they come…
Ensuring Relevance In Preaching
How do you ensure relevance in your preaching OK..first relevance doesn’t mean that you never preach about the ethical demands of the text. Some folks think that relevance means you only preach…
Make 2018 Your Best Preaching Year
Look at your sermons over the last year… All of them… Look at what you celebrated… Look at the ethical demands in your sermons…
Preaching Texts That Are Hard To Preach
There are two kinds of texts that are very hard to exegete and preach. The first are those that you have read so often, you think you already know what it is…