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What We Learn From the Cross About Ourselves
The Cross In The CenterWhat We Learn From The Cross About Ourselves In the last post we began the process of discovering what we learn from the cross about ourselves so that we keep the cross in the center of our preaching. We saw that the Apostle Paul made a point of describing what we were like before […]
Keeping The Cross In The Center
The Cross In The CenterKeeping The Cross In The Center Recently I was looking through old sermons that I had preached a long time ago, and found one that I wanted to share with you. The title I gave it back in 2006 was, The Cross In The Center. In this post I want to focus on keeping the […]
Put Your Main Point First to Improve Your Preaching
Keeping your preaching freshPut 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 point first to improve your preaching for your hearers. The Introduction […]
Using Words Well Adds Force to Your Sermon
Keeping your preaching freshUsing 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 and impactful. So does using a well-told story. In this post we are going to […]
A Well-Told Story Adds Creativity to Your Sermon
Keeping your preaching freshA 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. In this post we consider how a well-told story adds […]