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The Importance of Being Yourself When You Preach
Top Preaching TipsThe Importance of Being Yourself When You Preach This post is about the importance of being yourself when you preach to a congregation. One of the most engaging preachers in my geographical area became a professor of preaching. He was an effective preacher, with some impressive approaches to commuication. For one, he memorized the passages […]
How The Preacher Can Grow in Compassion
Compassion and effectivenessHow The Preacher Can Grow In Compassion In the last post, we looked at the connection between compassion and effectiveness in preaching. Or, as someone once said, your people have to know how much you care before they care how much you know. In this post I want to give a few suggestions on how […]
How Compassion Makes the Preacher Effective
Compassion and effectivenessHow Compassion Makes the Preacher Effective I talked to a friend this past week about how compassion makes the preacher effective to his congregation. My friend left a church that he served in California to serve another in Michigan, so he was away from the CA church for well over 10 years. Yet, he got […]
The Process For Failing Forward As A Preacher
The character of the preacherThe Process for Failing Forward As A Preacher In the last couple of posts we have been considering the need to fail forward as a leader and preacher. It is likely, as we have seen, that you will fail to live up to Paul’s description of leaders, that they be “above reproach” at all times. […]
Failing Forward As a Preacher
The character of the preacherFailing Forward As A Preacher In the last post we saw that failure is common among Christian leaders and preachers. In this post I want to continue those thoughts as we think about failing forward as a preacher of the Good News. What Failures Require Falling Forward As A Preacher? When we look at the […]