“I hate preaching holidays like Christmas and Easter,” he said. “Why?” I couldn’t fathom a Christian pastor ever uttering those words. “I have a hard time finding something new to say,” the pastor replied.
Plagiarism and the Preacher
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“Manuscript preaching has become more popular in recent years. The danger in this type of preaching is that it becomes easy to preach someone else’s manuscript—not just a quote—all, or large parts of another person’s sermon…. it is laziness and it is a great danger. If you are copying and pasting content, it needs to be cited in some way.” - P&D
Strengthening Your Preaching in a Small-Town Context
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“It is healthy for pastors to feel the weightiness and pressure of the ministry of the Word. Yet I believe small-town pastors face some challenges that might turn this healthy pressure into an unhealthy sense of frustration.” - RHMA
10 Ways to Help Listeners Hear
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“We’re “sitcom” people accustomed to listening in spurts interrupted by commercials. Congregations are the same way, so here are some steps to take to help them listen better” - Baptist Press
Exegetical Preaching: Let Scripture Lead
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“…there’s a difference between preaching from a passage and preaching the passage, and that difference matters more than we think. So let’s slow this down together. What is exegetical preaching really? Before we assume we’re doing this, we need to define it very clearly.” - GARBC
I Was Fired for My Preaching
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“I will never forget the phone call from the chairman of the search committee informing me that the church had overwhelmingly voted to call me as their next senior pastor….
8 Unique Ways to Prepare to Preach or Teach this Weekend
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“If you are teaching a small group or preaching a sermon this week, you recognize that your preparation matters. You might even have a pattern of prep you have followed for a number of years. Even if you do, though, maybe one of these unique ways to prepare might help you this weekend” - Chuck Lawless
Evangelistic preaching
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“Notice three things that Peter did in his evangelistic preaching that those of us who preach the Gospel can also do.” - Baptist Press
Christ's Resurrection and Our Newness of Life
By C. H. Spurgeon. Sermon 2197 delivered on Lord’s-day morning, March 29th, 1891 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Rom. 6:4)
I HAVE AFORETIME preached upon the whole verse, so that this morning I shall take the liberty to dwell chiefly upon the latter part of it—“Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
How to Preach Evangelistically (with Garrett Kell)
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“Should Sunday sermons be evangelistic—or focused on believers? In this episode, Matt Smethurst, Ligon Duncan, and Garrett Kell tackle a false dichotomy: faithful preaching should do both.” - TGC
