Teaching about Vows 33“You have also heard that people were told in the past, ‘Do not break your promise, but do what you have vowed to the Lord to do.’ 34But now I tell you: do not use any vow when you make a promise. Do not swear by heaven, for it is God's throne; ...
You have a great sermon prepared, and the hard part is done. It would be great if all you had to do was to stand up and speak the words for maximum effectiveness. But it takes more than just words to deliver the message. In today’s excerpt taken from Preaching God’s...
Of course, we fail. Some of you will have experience me being ungrateful and unkind. I and we can do better. Thankfully, though, we have a God who knows that we fail, and who has already been kind, loving and forgiving of us. We simply come back to him, say we’re sorry, ask ...
I do this assignment to prove they have what it takes to discover more if they learn to look for it. Secondly, and most importantly, is that Scripture is inexhaustible. We should never get too comfortable finalizing Scripture with a sermon. We must dig up more divinity where we are preachi...
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Todd Ervin What people say Very practical "Thank you - very practical. I will be passing this training on to some of those I am working with on sermon preparation." John Weigelt Best preaching resource I have ever used "Smart Sermon is one of the best preaching resources that I have eve...
Consider your intent.What is the purpose of your sermon? I’m not talking about vague goals, such as bringing glory to God. Consider what you want your audience to get out of the message. Each sermon will have an overarching application. It could be a discipleship message to help believers...
How do we make love a dominating characteristic of our lives? I. Make love a priority Indeed loving people is difficult. Yet this is what the Bible commands. "For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another" (1 John 3:11). We spend time on wha...
Ramesh Richard has gone so far as to say, "If you do not have your audience yearning (within the first few minutes) for the rest of the sermon, [it] might as well go home." However, if you begin the sermon with a clear, confident, intriguing opener, it ca...
less into logic, objectivity and reasoning. No one is perfect. If you are an owner of one part, you have to loose the other. Women don't and cannot exhaust themselves in strong, complex and tough intellectual arguments. If they do so, they need to drop the other end (the social ...