First Step… What is the Text Saying… Sometimes we jump to Commentaries… Sometimes we jump to dictionaries…
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Yelling Ain’t Gonna Fix A Broken Sermon
“I don’t know what’s wrong, but it just didn’t feel right.” A middle aged man told a woman, presumably his wife, at a Christian book store. Yeah, I know, my wife tells…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Prerequisites
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 1: Prerequisites to a Powerful Close How do you end a sermon with power? You are asking this because innately you understand that no matter how…
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Tactics Never Replace Power
Tactics don’t replace Power Exegesis, you better do it. But it don’t replace power… Solid Sermon Construction. Check. We need that, but it don’t replace power…
Tactics Don’t Replace Power
Exegesis, you better do it. But it don’t replace power… Solid Sermon Construction. Check. We need that, but it don’t replace power… Great Presentation. That’s what a lot of people remember. But…
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…
Practice Makes Perfect
The other day someone called me… “Hey Doc…I need to look at this text from a different angle…can you help me?” Well…I am a different person…so probably will hit it from a…
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…
Why They May Not Want To Hear You Preach
“It’s their loss…” You ever heard any preacher say that when folks didn’t want to hear them preach? Have you ever said or thought it? The preacher who says this thinks that…
Are You The Problem?
“It’s their loss…” A preacher said the above on social media when asked about the multiple folks who simply left the building when they found out he was preaching that morning… His…
Are Preacher’s Merely Hypemen?
A few posts ago, I argued that we cannot trust “shouting” or other outward manifestations of congregational interaction as a valid means of determining if the message was an effective one. It…
Three Layers of Justice Preaching
The Eco Justice Ministries website has a post up entitled Three Layers of Environmental Preaching.
The author of the post is specifically talking about preaching on the Environment, but one can easily adapt the discussion to such issues as Racism, Classism, or other issues that might be a problem in your particular parish.