Thinking About the Black Hole for Preaching

Thinking About the Black Hole For Preaching Since the last post, I've been thinking about the black hole for preaching as described in that reflection.  I think of two of the preachers from my own personal past.  I grew up in a very conservative…

The Sermon Sucking Black Hole

The Sermon Sucking Black Hole The Sermon Sucking Black Hole is the title of a book by David R. Mains.  I found this book in the pile  in my study that I hope to get to some day.  I was intrigued by the title, of course.   For those of you…

Hanging On To Integrity

Hang Onto Integrity In the last post we began a consideration of integrity.  We saw how important it is to the preacher who wants to continue to be heard.  In this post we're going to reflect on why you must hang onto integrity in your life…

Preaching With Integrity In Your Ministry

Preaching With Integrity We just completed a series of posts on the importance of preaching with passion.  Now we turn to another important subject: the importance of preaching with integrity in your ministry with your congregation.  Let's…

Preaching With Passion Involves Your Body

Preaching With Passion Involves Your Body This will likely be the last post that I do on preaching with passion.  If you want to review what we considered in this journey, the first post is at this link.  In this post I want to examine how…

Brokenness Can Add Passion

Brokenness Can Add Passion We are exploring how to express more passion in your preaching.  The first post in this series is here.  In this post we will consider that brokenness adds passion to your  preaching The year 2006 was a crossroads…

Preaching with Conviction Creates Passion

Preaching with Conviction Creates Passion We are in a series of blog posts on preaching with passion.  In the last post we saw that preaching with compassion creates passion.  In this post we are going to explore how preaching with conviction…

Developing Compassion So You Can Preach With Passion

Developing Compassion So You Can Preach With Passion We are considering how to grow the element of passion in your preaching.  The last post introduced the idea that experiencing  compassion will directly impact passion.  The subject of…

Preaching With Compassion Adds Passion

Preaching with Compassion Adds Passion Preaching with compassion adds passion to preaching.  That's the theme of this post.   If you are new here, this is one in a series of posts on passionate preaching.  The first of these posts is here.…

Praying Preaching Passion Down

Praying Preaching Passion Down We are in a series of posts about preaching with passion.  You can check out the previous posts by going to this link.  In this post I want to consider how to go about praying preaching passion down from heaven. The…