Great Preaching Requires Struggle
If you ask God to help you to preach a great sermon. You are asking God to help you in the Struggle. Brother Sherman Cox discusses this issue in this episode.
Is Whooping Necessary?
A common question has to do with whether whooping is necessary in preaching. Brother Sherman Cox addresses this question in this episode.
Does Sermon Prep Count As Devotional Time?
Do you have devotional time that is just between “You and God” and doesn’t affect your sermon prep?
Someone asked…
Or more clearly…”Does sermon prep count as devotional time?”
Let me say this…
EVERYTHING COUNTS FOR EVERYTHING…
What you talking bout
Well…when you sit down for devotional time…
You ask the Lord for Help…
You pray over a text.
Great Preacher or Great Pastor
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What would you rather be…
A great pastor….
Or a Great Preacher?
Yeah, I know you want to be both..
But what if you had to choose one?
A great pastor is going to mentor and disciple folks to help them become better representatives of the most high God.
The great preacher is going to provide messages that are like time bombs to blow up in the minds of the people…they blow up messages of hope and power right when the hearer needs it…
A great pastor is loved by the people and when the people need somebody to stand beside them in life’s struggles…they call the pastor…
A great preacher is loved by the people as well..and when a word of hope and power is needed…they pop in the tape or turn on the mp3 player to the preacher’s message…
In the final analysis…
God sends the great pastor…when the great pastor is needed…
And God sends the great preacher…when the great preacher is needed…
So which is better?
Both are needed…and both have their place…
And if you are a great preacher….be the great preacher God called you to be…and go head and work on those pastoral skills…
If you are a great pastor…be that great pastor…and yes work on those preaching skills…
The historic Black pastor and preacher helped us through the pains and hurts with a combination of pastoring and preaching and mentoring..and advocacy skills that allowed a people to make it through what they couldn’t make it through otherwise…
And that’s what my work is about….
If you want to see how this translates into a homieltic framework..then check out my homileitc at http://www.superchargeyoursermons.net.
Audio – Bible Teaching in the Church
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I sent out a request for tips on Bible Teaching. Specifically how to strengthen Sunday/Sabbath school and the Wednesday Night Bible Study. Pastor Anthony Watson provided some very helpful tips and that is the basis of this audio.
Check it out.
