Preaching

That’s easy. Increase your life. Live your life more fully. And pay attention to it…Stay as alive as you dare, and trust that your life with all its unorthodox twists and

Research from Thom Rainer: If time is a good measure, the leaders of effective churches prepare well for the sermons they preach each week. By a ratio of greater than 5 to 1,

From Associated Baptist Press: Contemplation and meditation may invade the sermon. “I’m convinced that sermons need intentional silences in them,” said Hulitt Gloer, professor of preaching and Christian Scripture at Baylor’s

Haddon Robinson, the preaching professor for my D.Min., on characteristics of great preachers: The pastor of a local church who knows his or her people and brings to them a Word from

One of the sermon evaluations that cracked me up was from one of our seniors. She was brutal in her marks. She gave me the lowest marks out of anyone. What made me