Focus On Your Audience You need to focus on your audience as you preach; that’s the lesson of today’s post. However, if you are going to do this well, you need to know who your audience is. To whom do you preach? In a previous post on this blog I made the point that we […]
Television Is King In the last post on this website I introduced the topic of what we can learn from television that can help our preaching. Stop preaching and start communicating was our theme. In this post we continue this subject by looking at the fact that television is king in the communication world today. […]
Stop Preaching and Start Communicating In the last couple of posts I explored methods that will help you preach to your whole congregation, to relate to the variety of people in it. With this post we’re going to change gears, and explore another avenue to learn how you can become a more effective preacher. […]
Preaching to Everyone in the Congregation In the last post we began looking at the challenge of preaching to everyone in the congregation that is varied by education, by ethnicity, by age, by financial situation, etc. How do you do that? I suggested in the last post that we can preach to everyone in particular […]
Preaching to Everyone In Particular One of the greatest challenges I faced in preaching was to relate to my entire audience, or, as the title of this post describes, “preaching to everyone in particular”. In the last congregation I served, Covenant Life Church in Grand Haven, MI, there were doctors, Phd’s, teachers, businessmen and lawyers. There […]
Mystic and Shepherd I am in a series of posts on the character of the preacher. We’ve seen, in the previous two posts, that congregations expect their pastor to be a person of faith, and they want their pastor to give accurate information. There are two other expectations that I want to explore in […]
The Preacher as Informer, Mystic, and Shepherd In the last post I began the process of what I called “exegeting the preacher”. In other words, how does the character of the preacher impact how people hear what is said? We also saw in the last post that hearers expect the preacher to be a person […]
Look Who’s Talking In this blog I’ve looked at the various components of preaching, including effective introductions, good organization of the body, and impactful conclusions. In other words, we’ve looked at the pragmatic stuff. There is an old saying that to be successful in any endeavor you need three things: knowledge, character and skill. One […]
Stewardship Sermons We’ve been looking at how to talk about money in this series of blog posts. Here’s a link to the first in this series. Today we will look at some ways to approach preaching on this sticky subject of money under the theme of Money Talks for Preachers. Money Talks is the title […]
Positives In Preaching About Money Preaching about money is a challenge, as we’ve seen in the past few posts. We’ve also seen that there are some pitfalls to avoid when you are dealing with this controversial topic. There are positive ways to approach the subject of giving, including using humor, as in this cartoon. In […]