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Becoming More Creative In Your Preaching
Keeping your preaching freshBecoming 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 that. I’ve been reading about how journalists do their work, and […]
Engaging Other People Creates Freshness
Keeping your preaching freshEngaging 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 Does “Engaging Other People” Mean? Let me give you an example from a recent sermon […]
Being A Reservoir Adds Freshness to Your Preaching
Keeping your preaching freshBeing 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 immediately distributes it to a different place. A reservoir also takes water from another source, but then keeps […]
An Engaging Question Can Add Freshness to Your Sermon
Keeping your preaching freshAn 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 it. Jesus Asked Questions When you read through the gospels, you can note 237 questions […]
Other Surprise Strategies to Keep Your Preaching Fresh
Keeping your preaching freshOther 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 refresh your memory. Problems With Personal Illustrations One of the other […]