Month: September 2015

Manuscript or Outline? How Should you Preach? Had a good question come in…Keep the questions coming: Anyway, here ya go… > Your messages are always so timely. I have a question about preaching > by manuscript. I spend hours & hours on

If you ain’t asked why then you ain’t done exegeting the text. “Why does the red light mean stop and the green light mean go?” I chuckle at the question. My son asked me that when he was younger and I really

Are you ready? You should always have a sermon ready to preach. “Hey Doc, I’m gonna put you on the program.” My Vanderbilt Divinity School classmate told a few us about an encounter at a church he was visiting. This was not

Is your Sermon Close Fake? OK, folks, I’m fixing to put a stake in the ground that is gonna anger some of yall…Forgive me, but I gotta do it… When you present the truth of the Gospel in all of its implications

“I am having a hard time finding something to celebrate.”  Someone asked… If you can’t find what to celebrate in your sermon, then the first thing you need to ask yourself is “Where is the good news?” If you only have a

“Preacher, you know of a good book of illustrations?” “Nope…” Is always my answer… Books of illustrations usually have either the same tired illustrations that you have heard millions of times if you regularly attend church. Or they have illustrations from an