We preachers have to come to terms with a few important points. First of all, everybody ain’t gonna like what you throwing down… In fact, if everybody loves all your sermons and…
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Preaching God’s Dangerous Truth
I was thinking about preaching when I came across Rev. Zach Mills facebook entry which says: “Dream dangerously! We currently live among a generation of people whose dreams are too realistic to…
Wrong Truth
I want to do a series on how we can preach the truth and yet still end up with a presentation that is unhelpful for the people in front of you. The…
Telling the Truth about the Bailout
Preachers are called to tell the truth. In this respect they are in the line of the Biblical prophets who had to tell truth to power. They had to say, like Nathan, thou art the man.
Bailout of the Super-Rich
Just Keep the Ball In Play
Just Keep Put The Ball In Play I wasn’t a basketball or football guy. Back in High School, I played baseball. I grew up watching the Kansas City Royals. I played little…
Why The Thorn
2 Corinthians 12:6-10 In our reading today Paul has an uplifting mood. However even in this elated mode we hear the overtones of the blues in his yearnings. A thorn was given…
The Radical Nature Of The Parables
I have referred to the power that lies in the parables. They are like dynamite that can blow up at any time. We do well to tread lightly around these powerful stories…
BB King and Jesus
B. B. King starts this Blues with a statement that fundamentally reverberates with the essence of the Blues. BB says, “Nobody Loves me But My Mother, And she could be Jiving Too.”…
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Bring Energy To The Pulpit
I saw a chorister lead a few hymns. And then another one… And the difference was striking… The energy from the congregation was much different between the two. The difference between the…
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…
Evaluating A Sermon Outline Part 2
OK…the sermon you got your eye on is one sermon and not multiple ones… That’s cool… But you still don’t know if you can preach it… Now there are two related questions…
How To Use An Outline
We did this series about a year and a half ago…so I thought you might want to see it again… This question comes in periodically… “How do you use a sermon outline?”…
Bible Scholar or Preacher…Which is More Difficult?
What is more difficult? Being a preacher or a Bible Scholar? Which do you think is harder? Which takes more work?