Preaching

The Preacher's Toolbox: The Celtic Way of Proclamation

03/12/23

11 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Underlying the particular strategies of these missionaries was a more fundamental approach to proclamation, one contemporary preachers need to reclaim.
The Preacher's Toolbox: The Perpetual Fount: Bo Giertz on Preaching

02/25/23

16 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

For all his theological and literary works, Giertz was always a preacher at heart. He recognized the pulpit was the perpetual fount of the Church’s faith.
The Preacher's Toolbox: The Craftmanship of Preaching

02/12/23

16 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Just as shoddy builders can get by at times with subpar work, so also shoddy preachers can occasionally offer up half-baked homiletic hash.
The Preacher's Toolbox: Concerning Mysterious Shower Epiphanies

01/28/23

15 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Preachers can more deliberately make time to meditate deeply and quiet the clatter which keeps us from hearing the still, small voice of the Spirit.
The Preacher's Toolbox: Embracing Your Tortoise: Prayer and Planning Days

01/22/23

12 mins

By 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.
- Preaching
- Essays on Preaching
The Preacher's Toolbox: When the Sermon Flops

12/24/22

13 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Regardless of why they happen, sermon flops do happen to all of us. So, what should you do next?
The Preacher's Toolbox:Words Fitly Spoken—Augustine on Style

12/11/22

17 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Augustine makes plain that the overarching aim of style is not to be showy; it’s to be an instrument of Spirit-led persuasion.
The Preacher's Toolbox: Augustine’s Purposes of Preaching

11/26/22

21 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Neither attentive note-taking, nor appreciative head-nods, nor even sympathetic tears satisfy the purpose of preaching. Only lives that are changed by the Word working in the hearts of God’s people can do that.
The Preacher's Toolbox: Eugene Peterson on Preaching – The Continuing Conversation

11/05/22

11 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Peterson would have us see each sermon embedded in the community of the faithful. No sermon stands alone because its context is not merely the liturgy, much less an online livestream, but the life together of God’s people.
- Preaching
- Essays on Preaching
The Preacher's Toolbox: The Necessity of Clarity

10/23/22

13 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Clarity enables mobility. When preachers make the message clear, the people of God are freed-up to follow Jesus.
The Preacher's Toolbox: The Sound of Silence-Pauses in Preaching

10/08/22

11 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Strategic silence is a sanctified stall tactic which benefits both the preacher and the pew-sitter. It is not just dead air.
The Preacher's Toolbox: What the Heart Doctor Showed Me about Preaching

09/24/22

14 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

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

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