Is your audience boring? Do they respond to your preaching? Do they laugh at jokes? Do they say “Amen.” Do they ever clap their hands? Are they leaning in to listen? Are they taking notes? You may think the problem is your people, but I want to propose something different here: If your audience is dull,…
The last few weeks I have been really sick. Nothing life-threatening. Fevers. Vomiting. That sort of thing. My kids keep picking up junk from school and lovingly passing it on to me. Being sick is no fun. And, as a pastor who is scheduled to preach, it presents a whole new set of problems. The night before…
Can you preach a good sermon without love?I was at a gathering of pastors, and the guest speaker said, “You can preach a good sermon without loving your people, but you will never preach a great sermon without loving them.” I immediately wrote the phrase down and chewed on it for a while. Can pastors…
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It is a sad reality today that many churches are simply not reaching many people for Christ.No, it’s not all about numbers. Yes, fellowship and discipleship are important. But if we are trying to follow the great commission, why are we not doing more to try to reach more people? Put simply, I believe it…
I have a friend who is really into rebuilding old cars. It is an art form to take a rusted out car from the scrap heap or auction lot and restore it to better than new condition.He once told me that when you rebuild a car, you don’t just add the parts that are missing….
The longer you have been a Christian, the more in danger your preaching is of suffering from the Curse of Knowledge.It becomes easy to assume that everyone believes some of the weird, miraculous, or difficult truths in the Bible. It becomes easy to forget that many people have serious questions and doubts about even the most basic Christian…
Choose your words carefully. Your words are immensely powerful. A destructive word can be devastating. A constructive word can change a life. The Bible says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” (Proverbs 18:21 ESV) Because of this, I take the words I…
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