Five Recommendations From A Veteran Church Camp Speaker
Start thinking now about these helpful tips if you’re involved in organizing or speaking at a church camp.
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Preaching
Pastoring First-Generation Believers: 10 Ways To Overcome The Christian Heritage Gap
How do you pastor people when they’re not just the only believers in their family, they’re the first Christian for generations?
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From Cool To Cringe: 10 Church Trends That Haven’t Aged Well
The era of cool is drawing to a close. Let’s hope the era of health, effectiveness, and integrity is what comes next.
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The Importance Of Being Very Literal In Our Easter Sunday Sermons
On Good Friday and Easter let’s get out of the way and let the best story of all stand on its own.
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Put People First: Why Many Small Church Pastors Can Spend Less Time On Sermon Prep
In a big church, the pastor will have name-recognition relationships with a very small percentage of the people they’re communicating to on a weekly basis. When you add writing, podcasting and other forms of communication, it’s typical for the pastor of a large church to have a personal relationship with fewer than one percent of
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6 Ways To Use PowerPoint (Yes, PowerPoint!) To Help Your Audience Become Better Listeners
I don’t do PowerPoint presentations. I teach. I preach. I talk. I illustrate. I tell stories. And I use visuals on a screen to enhance that communication. The program I use to create those visuals happens to be PowerPoint. Like any tool, it can be used well, or it can be used badly. PowerPoint is
Quit Trying To Become A Great Preacher
Effective communication is a passion of mine. But when we speak in front of people on a regular basis it’s easy to lose sight of why we’re doing it. How many pastors have found themselves deep in the weeds in sermon prep, trying to find just the right illustration, turn of phrase or rhyme so
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Quit Trying To Become A Great Preacher
Effective communication is a passion of mine. But when we speak in front of people on a regular basis it’s easy to lose sight of why we’re doing it. How many pastors have found themselves deep in the weeds in sermon prep, trying to find just the right illustration, turn of phrase or rhyme so
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5 Terms Christians Need To Stop Misusing
The mission comes first. Always. Because of that, whenever an extra-biblical idea or turn of phrase is anything but clear in the way it advances the message, we need to find and use a better manner of communication. In the church, we’ve been using some terms in ways that not only aren’t helpful to newcomers and
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5 Preaching Styles In 25 Years (Here’s What I Changed And Why)
Preaching matters. According to no less an authority than the Apostle Paul, the spoken message of Christ crucified is one the ways God has chosen to bring his message of salvation to the world (1 Corinthians 1:18-25). Because preaching matters, those of us who are entrusted to do so need to engage in it with
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