Preaching From the Overflow

Preach from the overflow.

My homiletics instructor told us. Preach from the overflow.

And I encourage you to take this to heart…

Always go for depth. Whether it be in your exegesis…

Whether it be in your sermon construction…

Preaching a “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…

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…

Whether you use a full manuscript or an outline…

God Has A Blessing In Your Struggle

Sometimes you sit down to put a sermon together…

And the sermon just flows…

The words just come to you…

The concepts…

You make connections between what Sister Betty said and the Apostle Paul said, and then you find Moses addressed the same exact thing.

How To Judge Your Community

How do you judge your community?

I remember visiting a church that had the reputation of being warm and loving once…

Nobody knew who I was…

I Just walked in…

The person at the door didn’t give me a bulletin.