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16 mins read|02/12/23Just as shoddy builders can get by at times with subpar work, so also shoddy preachers can occasionally offer up half-baked homiletic hash.
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15 mins read|01/28/23Preachers can more deliberately make time to meditate deeply and quiet the clatter which keeps us from hearing the still, small voice of the Spirit.
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13 mins read|12/24/22Regardless of why they happen, sermon flops do happen to all of us. So, what should you do next?
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17 mins read|12/11/22Augustine makes plain that the overarching aim of style is not to be showy; it’s to be an instrument of Spirit-led persuasion.
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21 mins read|11/26/22Neither 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.
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13 mins read|10/23/22Clarity enables mobility. When preachers make the message clear, the people of God are freed-up to follow Jesus.
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11 mins read|10/08/22Strategic silence is a sanctified stall tactic which benefits both the preacher and the pew-sitter. It is not just dead air.
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14 mins read|09/24/22We 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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11 mins read|09/10/22The message of the gospel is a multifaceted diamond. Parallelism in preaching helps you to bring out the beauty of those different facets.
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10 mins read|06/26/22The 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.
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11 mins read|06/11/22We 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.
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11 mins read|05/28/22My greatest fear is simply this: I will be exposed for the phony I am.
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