Why You Are Not Improving

Why are you not improving?

OK…

That’s a bit presumptuous…

The fact is that if you doing it regularly…you probably are improving…

But…

Are you improving as much as you should?

Seeing Through The Fog

I was driving on a country road in some dense fog early one morning.

But I still couldn’t see very far in front of me…

But I continued on…

Then seemingly out of nowhere I see a bike rider.

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 the deacon got the diagnoses…

But suddenly you are caught off guard when it is you…

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 about the free gift side of the gospel. 

Naw that ain’t it…

Relevance simply means that you preach in a way that is UNDERSTOOD by the people.