Is your congregation bored with your preaching? Are you bored with your preaching? Try Scamper. Apply especially to word choice, sermon structure, and application (not doctrine!).
Is your congregation bored with your preaching? Are you bored with your preaching? Try Scamper. Apply especially to word choice, sermon structure, and application (not doctrine!).
I’ve written before about preaching without (or with less) notes (here and here). Here’s some more advice from Jerry Weissman on how to disconnect from your notes and connect with your hearers. One CFO showed up for his coaching session…
Very few good preachers begin as good preachers. Of the twenty or so practice preaching sermons that I listen to every semester, maybe one or two students have it all together: good intro, accurate exegesis, clear structure, appropriate illustrations, personal…
The most effective preachers and teachers have an ability to make the profound simple. But how? Tony Schwartz says that such “deceptive simplicity” is the result of: Rigorous thinking Skillful synthesizing A commitment to clarity And Schwartz persuasively argues that…
Jack Dorsey has 200 million customers. At least, that’s how many use his product, Twitter, every day. He is also founder of Square, a new way for everyone to accept credit card payments that financiers are salivating over. Two multi-million-dollar…
Here’s a sobering Seth Godin post for preachers: If you want to drive yourself crazy, read the live twitter comments of an audience after you give a talk, even if it’s just to ten people. You didn’t say what they…