How To Overcome A Weak Foundation Sermon

How To Overcome A Weak Foundation Sermon In the last post we began to explore Joseph's weak foundations life, potentially keeping him from  a compelling, overcoming life.  This post is a follow-up to that post.  Here we consider a sermon…

Preaching On Overcoming A Weak Foundation

Preaching On Overcoming a Weak Foundation The last two posts have focused on how to preach a series of messages on the family in a creative way.  This post, preaching on overcoming a weak foundation is a continuation of that theme.    By…

How Not To Do Family

How Not To Do Family In the last post we started a consideration of preaching on the family.  Check it out before you read this post.  In this post we're going to consider how not to do family in your house.  A couple of caveats: first of…

Preaching About The Family

Preaching About Family We are turning in this post from the series about keeping the cross in the center of your preaching (here's the last one in that series) to preaching about the family in your church.  Many experts report that the nuclear…

Preaching The Cross Shows How Much God Loves Us

Preaching the Cross Shows How Much God Loves Us In the last post we considered that preaching the cross reminds me that I am a sinner.  In this post we'll see the next, logical aspect of keeping the Cross a central part of your preaching.…

Preaching The Cross Reminds Us That We Are Sinners

Preaching the Cross Reminds Us That We Are Sinners If you are new to this blog, we are focusing on what it means to keep the cross in the center of our preaching schedule.  Here's the first post in this series.   In this post we are going…

God Uses People Who Are Lowly and Despised

God Uses People Who Are Lowly and Despised We are in a series of posts on what it means to keep the cross in the center of our preaching.  This does not mean that we preach every week about the cross, but that we overall it is clear from our…

What We Learn From the Cross About Ourselves

What We Learn From The Cross About Ourselves In the last post we began the process of discovering what we learn from the cross about ourselves so that we keep the cross in the center of our preaching.   We saw that the Apostle Paul made a…

Keeping The Cross In The Center

Keeping The Cross In The Center Recently I was looking through old sermons that I had preached a long time ago, and found one that I wanted to share with you.  The title I gave it back in 2006 was, The Cross In The Center.  In this post I…

Put Your Main Point First to Improve Your Preaching

Put Your Main Point First to Improve Your Preaching We are learning from journalism how to improve our sermons.  The first of the posts on this subject is at this link.  In this post we will consider this tip from journalists: Put your main…