How to Love Your People For Better Preaching

How to Love Your People For Better Preaching In the last post we saw that loving your people makes preaching better.  In this post we consider how to love your people for better preaching in your ministry. Let Them Know You Love Them I've…

Loving Your People Makes Preaching Better

Loving Your People Makes Preaching Better It seems to be a rather obvious statement: loving your people makes preaching better and easier.  But a question comes up rather quickly: how do you love the jerks?  Your church has them, I'm sure.…

How To Build A Team Spirit

How To Build A Team Spirit In the last post we looked at team spirit as a means to motivation for ministry.  In this post we are going to consider how to build a team spirit in yourself and in your church. A Common Vision Builds Team Spirit I…

A Team Spirit Creates Motivation

A Team Spirit Creates Motivation In the last several posts in this blog we considered the challenge of remaining motivated.  This post is the next to last one in the series.  In this post we will reflect on the fact that a team spirit creates…

Compassion Creates Motivated Preachers

Compassion Creates Motivated Preachers We are in a series of posts about how to keep your motivation as preacher.  Here is where you can connect with previous posts.   In this post we are considering how compassion creates motivated preachers…

Keep Calm And Carry On

Keep Calm and Carry On Keep calm and carry on is a slogan that someone in England created before World War II.  Here's the Wikipedia introduction to their article on the background to this widely-known, oft-quoted slogan: Keep Calm and…

Christ's Love Compels Us To Preach

Christ's Love Compels Us To Preach Christ's love compels us to preach the good news.  That's the theme for this post.  We have been discussing various reasons to remain motivated in our service of God.  If you're new to this blog, check…

A Sense of Duty Gives Motivation for Preaching

A Sense of Duty Gives Motivation for Preaching Motivation is important.  That's something that we have been looking at in this series of posts, starting with this one.  In this post, we're going to see that a sense of duty gives motivation…

The Attitude of Gratitude Provides Motivation

The Attitude of Gratitude Provides Motivation We are considering how to remain motivated to go on preaching and ministering.  Here's the first post in this series.  In this post we will reflect on the truth that the attitude of gratitude…

A Sense of Privilege Gives Motivation

A Sense of Privilege Gives Motivation As we saw in the last post, a compelled person has motivation to preach and minister.  A sense of privilege gives motivation to preachers as well.  What do I mean by a sense of privilege?  Many years…