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1. 5 Questions to Ask Yourself as You Preach in the Midst of Cultural Crisis: When big news happens—civil unrest, natural disasters, terrorist attacks—pastors usually start an internal dialogue about the coming Sunday's message. Do I preach the message I'd planned on preaching? T ...; Created on 07 September 2017
2. Make Visual Storytelling Easier With 3 Basic Steps: We are a visually-driven generation, but then again, we've always been. Filmmaker Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption) says: "Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were ...; Created on 24 August 2017
3. 8 Tips to Kiss Boring Sermons Goodbye: ... to convey it simply. Or, we are tired and not able to give this our all. Or something has distracted us from being able to give our best effort. Or we're preaching something assigned to us but about whic ...; Created on 17 August 2017
4. How Beth Moore Is Calling Down Pentecostal Fire: ... istianity. What will make us relevant is not our cool factor. It's time for leadership to repent." I've heard a lot of excellent preaching over the years. But listening to Beth Moore was uncanny because ...; Created on 01 August 2017
5. 9 Basics to Improve Your Sermon Delivery: Effective preaching is more than just about what you say. It's also about how you say it. Too many sermons fail not because of bad content, but because of bad delivery. Nobody how experienced you are, yo ...; Created on 31 July 2017
6. Never Waste Your Sermon: 6 Ways to Repurpose Your God-Given Message: ... to leave church on Sunday believing there is still more to come of the results from your preaching, even after the lights are turned off and the doors locked. I think we should never waste a good sermon. ...; Created on 05 June 2017
7. This Is Why Your Congregation Keeps Getting Distracted During Your Sermon: ... this and up your game. To avoid some common mistakes that lead to boring sermons check out this article on five easy steps to put people to sleep with your preaching. The difference between effective ...; Created on 22 May 2017
8. 5 Must-Do's for Your Mother's Day Sermon: ... m-seen husbands, fathers and sons show up believing that church is for women, and we reinforce their stereotype by decorating the stage with flowers and frilly stuff, and preaching on the virtues of moth ...; Created on 12 May 2017
9. Research Reveals How Your Congregation Wants You to Talk About Politics: Faith and politics have a complicated relationship in the United States. Many Americans want religious leaders to be clear about their values and how those values impact every aspect of life, including ...; Created on 05 May 2017
10. This May Be the Cheapest Kind of preaching: ... ts about what was about to happen. Later, as Grandma and I walked down those dark streets to her apartment, every plane going over seemed ready to drop an atomic bomb on us. Scary preaching is foreign ...; Created on 28 April 2017
11. Balanced Principles for Using Pop Culture to Connect People to Jesus: ... to preaching about pop culture, it's only fitting that the things people are thinking and talking about every day become avenues for pointing them toward the gospel. As for the question of whether we should invol ...; Created on 27 April 2017
12. preaching That Locks Your Listeners In: To preach in a way that connects with your hearers, I encourage you to do four things: 1. Enter Their World Preachers who engage their listeners consider what their world looks like. Jesus did that. Preaching ...; Created on 31 March 2017
13. Why You Can't Lead God's People by Example Only: ... their communication skills. If you have a heart to lead (meaning calling and compassion), you must be committed to continually upgrading your communication. This includes teaching, preaching, writing, bl ...; Created on 27 March 2017
14. Practical Tips for Snagging Your Listeners' Undivided Attention: This is part 2 of a two-part series. As somebody who has been preaching and teaching the gospel since 1978, I have seen the "good, the bad and the ugly" when it comes to presenting the gospel of Chris ...; Created on 13 March 2017
15. This Might Be Why Your Listeners Are Falling Asleep: As somebody who has been preaching and teaching the gospel since 1978, I have seen the "good, the bad and the ugly" when it comes to presenting the gospel of Christ (both in others and myself). After bein ...; Created on 03 March 2017
16. 8 Spirit-Directed Steps to Get Your Listeners to Jump Out of Their Seats: ... to pray with you. 2. Get some unchurched people in the seats. It doesn't do any good to preach a great gospel message and altar call if you're preaching to the choir. You need people who aren't yet in a relati ...; Created on 02 March 2017
17. What Every Pastor Should Keep in Mind When preaching the Hard Truths: We who preach are called to preach everything, the "whole counsel of God." And that means talking about human sinfulness and depravity even as we're preaching about victory and triumph. Remember the passa ...; Created on 28 February 2017
18. 4 Terrible Ways to Close a Sermon: ... he landing: Preaching professors wisely point this out to students. Why then do our conclusions often feel like we are crash-landing in the Potomac River? Several of my sermons have started strong and finis ...; Created on 10 February 2017
19. Kingdom Influence: A Challenge to Young Pastors and Leaders: What a difference one phone call can make. Just over a year ago, I was invited to a listening session with then-candidate Donald J. Trump, along with several other very prominent evangelical leaders. Never ...; Created on 07 February 2017
20. A Three-Tiered Approach to Christian Worldview preaching: ... This is worldview preaching—preaching that works to supplant secular worldviews and the replace them with the Christian worldview. In our post-Christian culture, many of our hearers have to be taught that ...; Created on 01 February 2017

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