Christ and Culture In the last post, we began a discussion of how to preach to a culture that either ignores Christ or, worse, is hostile to him. We continue today talking about how Christians should view Christ and culture and especially so in preaching. I find this quote from British Eagelton, a British […]
Preaching Christ to the Culture Tim Keller has a chapter in his book, Preaching, with the title above. How do you go about preaching Christ to the culture when the culture doesn’t seem to care? Where I’m Coming From I grew up during a time when a large majority of people in my culture said that […]
How to conclude your sermon We’ve looked for several posts now at how to conclude your sermon well. This is the last post in the series, a conclusion to conclusions. We’ve seen a variety of ways to end a message effectively, from going back to the introduction, to telling a story, to giving an […]
Ending Well We have been considering the importance of conclusions. This link will connect you to the first post in this series. Today we continue with examples about how to conclude your messages effectively. Ending your sermon well is key to how people will remember your message. We have seen that it is effective to […]
Try This Kind of Conclusion In this post I’m going to continue reflecting on conclusions, a subject we started a couple of posts ago. I’m going to give you some examples and encourage you to try this kind of conclusion in each case. End with a story that summarizes your main point Another extremely effective […]
Effective Conclusions We have been exploring the importance of conclusions in previous posts. We’ve seen that there are many ways to do conclusions ineffectively. In this post we are turning our attention to how to bring your sermon to a conclusion in an effective, powerful and memorable way. There are a variety of ways to […]
Missing the Nail In the last post we began looking at the importance of conclusions to the sermon. We reflected on two ineffective ways to conclude a message: the fail the plan and the “I’m out of time” conclusions. Today we continue looking at ways that we could be missing the nail when we are […]
Conclusions Are More Important Than You Think Quite awhile ago in this blog I looked at introductions in several posts, saying that introductions are more important than you think. Here’s a link to the first of the posts in that series. Lately, as I’ve been working through a class on preaching for CLI, I’ve […]
Using Pain in Preaching One last reflection on how to preach while in pain. We’ve been looking at this subject for the last few posts, and today we are going to consider using pain in preaching your sermons. Henri Nouwen has said, in his book, The Wounded Healer, that God can use our pain. Here’s the quote: […]
Preaching While In Pain We’ve been exploring the subject of how you go about preaching through pain that invades your life. There are sources of pain that drain you physically, mentally and spiritually, and require that you learn the art of preaching while in pain of various kinds. There the big ones, of course, like […]