Choosing Your Target Audience
In the immediately previous posts we've been looking at things we can learn from television that will improve our preaching. One of the things television does well is to target a certain audience. So, how…
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Who Are You Talking To?
In the last couple of posts we have been exploring what we can learn from the way people in television produce their programs. We've seen that television is king in our culture; it is where people get their news, and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?…
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Choosing Your Target Audience
stop preaching and start communicatingWho Are You Talking To?
stop preaching and start communicatingFocus On Your Audience
stop preaching and start communicatingTelevision Is King
stop preaching and start communicatingStop Preaching and Start Communicating
stop preaching and start communicatingPreaching to Everyone in the Congregation
Top Preaching TipsPreaching to Everyone In Particular
Top Preaching TipsThe Preacher As Mystic and Shepherd
The character of the preacherThe Preacher as Informer
The character of the preacherWho You Are Impacts How People Hear What You Say
The character of the preacher