Learning Conversational Preaching

 Learning Conversational Preaching One of the most amazing aspects of God is that he wants to communicate with us human beings.  This post begins a series on learning conversational preaching.   God is about communication. We see this…

Things To Remember In A First Person Sermon

Things To Remember In A First Person Sermon We've been thinking through the purpose and challenges of doing a first person sermon.  In this last post on the subject I want to consider some things to remember in a first person sermon as a wrap-up…

What To Put In Your First Person Sermon

What To Put In Your First Person Sermon We are in a series of posts describing how to create and perform a first person sermon.  Here's the first in the series.  In this post I want to consider what to put in your first person sermon that…

Creating the Story Sermon

Creating the Story Sermon In the last post we reflected on doing the background work prior to creating the story sermon.  In this post we take the next step, actually creating the story sermon itself. Releasing the Imagination After doing…

First Steps in First Person Preaching

First Steps in First Person Preaching In the last post I introduced the idea of doing first person preaching, that is, becoming a character in the narrative parts of the Bible.  In this post we are going to consider the first steps in first…

First-Person Bible Preaching

First Person Bible Preaching A few posts ago I told you about Jim, a member of the first church I served as pastor.  You can review the story here.  My wife and I received an  invitation to a reception/open house for Jim.  He had received…

Preach Because of the Power of God's Word

Preach Because of the Power of God's Word We are considering reasons to keep preaching in a world where there are many challenges.  In this post we are going to consider that we should preach because of the power of God's Word to change lives. Our…

More Reasons to Preach

More Reasons to Preach In the last post we looked at some of the reasons to preach in light of incredible challenges to preaching that  I delineated in previous posts (starting here).  In this post I want to consider more reasons to preach…

Why Commit to Preaching?

 Why Commit to Preaching? In the past several posts we have looked at many of the challenges to effective preaching these days.   Here is the first in the series.  With all the challenges of expectations, of preaching an absolute truth in…

The Prestige Challenge for Preaching

The Prestige Challenge for Preaching I was on an airplane recently, and had a wide choice of movies to watch to pass the time.  I chose one that seemed to have a redeeming theme, and even promised a kind of "Christian" under theme.  So, I…