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…

Using Words Well Adds Force to Your Sermon

Using Words Well Adds Force to Your Sermon We are considering what we can learn from journalism to improve our sermons.  Here's a link to the beginning of these reflections.  We've seen that adding creativity makes your sermon more interesting…

A Well-Told Story Adds Creativity to Your Sermon

A Well-Told Story Adds Creativity To Your Sermon We are considering how to add creativity to our sermons.  In the last post we looked at how to use a heuristic to find fresh ways to open our minds to new understandings of the developing message.…

Becoming More Creative In Your Preaching

Becoming More Creative In Your Preaching In the previous posts we considered how to keep your preaching fresh.  You can read the stream by connecting to the first post in the series here.  In this post I want to take a slight detour from…

Engaging Other People Creates Freshness

Engaging Other People Creates Freshness in Preaching We are considering how to keep your preaching fresh.  The first post in this series is   In this post we'll see how engaging other people creates freshness in preaching to your congregation. What…

Being A Reservoir Adds Freshness to Your Preaching

Being A Reservoir Adds Freshness to Your Preaching This past week I read in Bruce Mawhinney's interesting book, Preaching with Freshness, about the difference between being a reservoir or a pipe.  A pipe takes water from another source and…

An Engaging Question Can Add Freshness to Your Sermon

An Engaging Question Can Add Freshness To Your Sermon We are reflecting on keeping your preaching fresh.  Here's another strategy to add to your arsenal: an engaging question can add freshness to your sermon for your people.  Let's talk about…

Other Surprise Strategies to Keep Your Preaching Fresh

Other Surprise Strategies to Keep Your Preaching Fresh In this post we are going to consider other surprise strategies to keep your preaching fresh for your audience.  This post is one in a series, and the first one is here if you want to…

More Ideas For Surprise to Keep Your Preaching Fresh

More Ideas for Surprise to Keep Your Preaching Fresh We are exploring strategies for keeping your preaching fresh for your listeners.  We've seen so far that you need to schedule time to be creative in your sermon preparation, that aphorisms…

The Surprise Keeps Preaching Fresh

The Surprise Keeps Preaching Fresh We are considering how to keep preaching fresh.  The first post in this series is here.  We looked at the fact that you need to prioritize preaching in your schedule if you are going to remain fresh as a…