Ryan Tinetti

We entered the hospital with a jumbled ball of questions, uncertainties, and anxieties. We left with a master class in effective communication.

The message of the gospel is a multifaceted diamond. Parallelism in preaching helps you to bring out the beauty of those different facets.

Preaching which eschews the harping harangues of legalistic schoolmarms in favor of the Savior’s undeserved favor reflects the holy hilarity of the Gospel.

In Haidt’s findings, we have plenty to learn as preachers who are proclaiming God’s Word to His Body in its varied composition of reds, blues, and other hues.

Those first few words from the preacher’s mouth are worth their weight in spun gold.

The conference ministry tent is typically regarded as a spot to make connections, kill time, or scrounge empty calories. What I found out is how the ministry tent is an unexpected gold mine for Gospel proclamation.

The pocket notebook is an indispensable tool for the working preacher, because more often than not our great homiletical insights come to us, unexpectedly and extra nos, like grace.

We do not typically give much thought to the title at all, missing a chance to create greater anticipation for the preaching of the Word before it has even begun.

My greatest fear is simply this: I will be exposed for the phony I am.

If preaching can be a greater joy for myself and my people, who after all have to put up with us preachers, that is a win in my book. And I think preaching by heart can help to accomplish this.

On Good Friday, poetic justice is satisfied. Poetic mercy is all which remains.

And in the final analysis it isn’t a matter of whether you use rhetoric, but how. Inasmuch as your preaching is still public speaking...you’re going to get rhetorical.

Christmas is a tremendous opportunity to make known the good news of great joy, but this opportunity is squandered when the Word isn’t heard on account of the predictability of the proclamation.

The Memory Palace harmonizes with how God has made us, so we can more effectively proclaim to His people how He has made and saved them.

By more intentionally and consistently incorporating the concrete elements of story and metaphor into your preaching, you refresh your language, serve your people, and shed fresh light on the Gospel.

The goal of Arrangement is to make the proclamation of the Gospel clearer and more compelling for your hearers.

Through the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, you are not so much coming up with something to preach about as you are coming upon it.

[Nearly] all of us struggle with making the move, as Thomas Long puts it, “from desk to pulpit.” The reason is because our approach to sermon preparation is inadequate.