Pro Preacher’s Top Posts of 2018

Thanks to you, 2018 was a monumental year for Pro Preacher.

Here’s a quick recap of some of the milestones:

• We’ve crushed last year’s record for visitors and page views, growing nearly 50%.
• I launched a preaching course. Enrollment is open if you’re interested in stepping up your preaching in 2019.
• I published the Productive Christian Journal. You can read about how this journal changed my life here.
• I published a few sermon packages to help busy pastors: my wedding sermons, funeral sermons, and a Christmas sermon.
• On a personal note, I finally graduated from seminary. It was a long time coming, and I wrote about here.
• After a lot of prayer and consideration, I pushed past the fear and followed God’s lead to take the full-time plunge into writing and creating Christian content. You can read more about the decision here.

Wow, it’s been a crazy and productive year. For all of this, I thank God, and I also need to thank you.

I couldn’t do any of this without such a great community of readers.

When I started this little blog six years ago, I had no idea how big God’s plan was. Who knew that God would use what a young pastor like me was learning about preaching to impact tens of thousands of pastors around the world?

So thank you again, from the bottom of my heart. I’m so happy that you’re finding my work to be helpful for you and your ministry.

Top Posts of 2018

Digging back into the archives, I’ve pulled out the most popular articles I wrote in 2018. Here they are in no specific order.

The Best Video Equipment for a Church on a Budget

If you want to make high-quality videos with a small budget, here’s what I use and recommend.

The One Mistake All Fallen Pastors Make

With so many of high-profile pastors falling, I believe there’s one common thing at the core of it all. It’s something that could trip any one of us up too.

12 Spiritual Disciplines That Will Make Your Faith Strong

Many Christians are spiritually unfit because they are undisciplined. Just as the undisciplined body becomes sluggish and fat, the undisciplined spirit becomes weak. Here are twelve disciplines you can’t neglect any longer.

The Best Preaching Tip of All Time

In all the advice today about how to preach, we cannot forget what I believe to be the best preaching tip of all time.

How to Preach: And Epic Guide to Everything You Need to Know

This article is a crash course on the basics of preaching. After a decade of ministry experience, I’m convinced that all great preaching involves these three phases.

5 Common Preaching Mistakes Many Pastors Make

Preaching is hard. Add all of the demands of pastoral ministry on top of preaching, and it’s no surprise that many pastors make common mistakes. Here are five that I see a lot.

Why Do People Go to Church? This Study Found It’s Not The Sermon

Among adults who attend church services at least once or twice a month, 81% said this was the reason they attend.

Why Student Ministry is Failing in Most Churches

I had no idea that my biggest opposition in student ministry would come from within the church instead of the outside. Unless you’ve done it, you’ll never understand a student pastor’s burden and why most don’t last long.

What to expect in 2019

God has given me the vision to continue to work hard to make ProPreacher.com the best resource available to help pastors preach better.

I plan to write more articles, make more resources, publish more books, compile more sermon illustrations, create more videos, and possibly start a podcast (let me know if you would listen).

I can’t wait!

Thanks again for reading. 2018 was a milestone year, but we are just getting started. Stick around because 2019 will be even better.