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Highlights From the 2014 Preach Better Sermons Conference
This week the Rocket Company held the 2014 Preach Better Sermons online conference. There was a ton of great content. Here are some of my notes from each speaker. Judah Smith What makes the good news so good is that we are so bad. Always ask: What is the message because of the cross? If…
Preaching Quote #5 – John Newton
“My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.” – John Newton

2 Benefits Of Raising Objections to Your Own Sermon (One is obvious. The other is not.)
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…

How Long Should My Sermon Be?
I’m a fairly new Pastor. I’ve been pastoring a small Church in upper state New York for just over two years. My preaching style has morphed over the years. My sermon preparation, notes, and delivery have transformed into completely different forms. I’ve read books on preaching, listened to good preaching, inevitably compared myself to other…
Preaching Quote #4 – George Whitefield
Stop comparing yourself to other preachers. We all have the greatest message the world has ever known. Do your best, and rest in the gospel. Next time you start comparing, ask yourself: Is the gospel enough?

Why Do People Go to Church? This Study Found It’s Not the Sermon
A recent Pew Research Center poll titled “Why Americans Go (and Don’t Go) to Religious Services” caught my attention this week. There’s a lot of information, but here’s what I gleaned from it: Among adults who attend church services at least once or twice a month, when asked to rank reasons they attend as very…