Sermon Must Have ONE Purpose
What is the purpose of your sermon?
Is it to expand the kingdom of God?
Is it to comfort the people of God?
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…
Who Creates the Sermon?
Who creates a sermon?
My homiletics professor, Dr. Brad Braxton, said, “You can’t write a sermon down because a sermon is an event.”
You can’t write down an event. You can write down some notes that help you deliver one side of the event.
I ain’t talking about manuscript versus outline…
The First Step To All Sermon Preparation
First Step…
What is the Text Saying…
Sometimes we jump to Commentaries…
Sometimes we jump to dictionaries…
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 about.
The second are those from obscure portions of scripture where you don’t often read them.
You know the ones, where you barely know who wrote the book and you have very little idea of the historical context of the text.
