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Ryan Tinetti
Ryan Tinetti

  1. A.I. in Preaching

    book
    08/02/25
    23 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    Preaching comprises a whole panoply of hard-won skills. We shortcut this process to our peril.

  2. The Preacher's Toolbox: Exploiting the Ministry Tent

    book
    06/29/25
    7 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    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.

  3. The Preacher's Toolbox: Embracing Your Tortoise: Prayer and Planning Days

    book
    03/15/25
    12 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    Time devoted to planning, to say nothing of prayer, pays-off in the long run many times over. If ever there was a vocation that need not be in a hurry, it is the cure of souls.

  4. The Revenge of Analog Sermon Prep

    book
    02/01/25
    15 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    Dear preachers, if you recoil at the prospect of sermons which are generated by algorithmic bots, then here is a first step in your resistance: Make your preparation to preach more analog.

  5. Against Homiletical Docetism: A Brief Case for Rhetoric

    book
    09/14/24
    14 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    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.

  6. Sermons from the “Sweet Singer”: Franzmann on Preaching

    book
    04/20/24
    21 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    When God’s strong Word is wedded to beautiful human words it makes for a potent one-two punch that fells the Devil and raises the saints.

  7. The Preacher's Toolbox: Preach Till You Drop

    book
    03/02/24
    16 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    What all variations of affable chatter share in common is that the preacher does not do justice to the most salient fact about him and his hearers: They are dead men walking.

  8. The Preacher's Toolbox: The Lively Skeleton

    book
    02/10/24
    15 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    A solid structure, a lively skeleton, inarguably makes your messages more life-giving. They will be clearer, more interesting, and easier both to follow and to remember.

  9. The Preacher's Toolbox: Passion Trumps Polish

    book
    01/20/24
    16 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    But what God’s people want and need more than a perfect sermon, or even necessarily a polished one, is a true one.

  10. The Preacher's Toolbox: Cosmic Preaching - Bringing Order to Your Process

    book
    01/06/24
    21 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    The ancients had a process for preparing to give a speech that has come down to us as the so-called “canons” (or stages) of rhetoric, which continues to be useful for orators of all kinds, not least preachers.

  11. The Preacher's Toolbox: A Christmas Story

    book
    12/16/23
    13 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    “What’s the play about?” Imogene asked. “It’s about Jesus,” I said. “Everything here is,” she muttered.

  12. The Preacher's Toolbox: How to Tell Stories Better

    book
    12/02/23
    15 mins
    Ryan Tinetti
    Today, I want to share with you one simple trick which will help to ensure the stories you tell are truly “stories,” and not just an arranging of events in supposedly narrative form.
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