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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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…
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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…
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Mistakes to Avoid When Preaching About Money
In the last couple of posts I introduced the subject of preaching about money. We've seen that people in your congregation probably have some reasons why they don't like to hear about money from…
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Money Matters
In the last post I introduced this subject of how to preach about money matters in our sermon schedules. I began the subject by looking at why our congregations don't want us to preach about money, and we saw how people view…
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Preaching About Money
I think most pastors cringe just a little bit when the subject of preaching about money comes up. We don't like to do it. Why? I suspect it is because we believe that people in the congregation don't want to hear…
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People of Grace
We've been discussing in this blog how to preach to the culture around us. In the last post, I reflected on the culture of the United States as an example of how the church can get away from its central message of grace, and…
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Preaching to Everyone In Particular
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