Over the years, I’ve received hundreds of emails from preachers from all over the world. In these emails, they’ve shared with me their struggles/challenges/problems when it comes to preaching.
And after reading these hundreds of emails, I’ve noticed some very common patterns (no matter if the preac...
A lot of people listen to Jon Tyson's sermons.
I recently featured his preaching on the first installment of Preacher Lab – a breakdown of a preacher's sermon so that we can learn lessons for our own preaching.
Here are 4 things I noticed from his preaching
→ He displays a deep burden for the peo...
Whenever you preach a sermon, you want people to respond to what God is telling them. You want them to take a step in their walk with God.
When you labor in prayer over the week in preparation, you ask God to work in the hearts of those who will hear the message. You want them to:
- Believe
- Repen ...
Do you want to write better sermons week in and week out?
I know, that’s kind of a silly question. Of course you do. Who wouldn’t?
You and I both know how important preaching is to the mission of the church. After all, Jesus was a preacher—a masterful one.
But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Wise pr...
Despite the growing number of unchurched, dechurched, and kinda churched people today, Easter is still a fantastic opportunity to reach new people. In this video, I want to point you to the 10 vital keys to preaching a life-changing Easter sermon.
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If there's one thing that would improve many people's preaching, it's designing their sermons with a better cadence of engagement.
And that's why I created this brand new tool that you can begin using right away. It's called, The Engagement Cycle. You can learn all about it in this video.
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What’s better than seeing people surrender to Jesus?! I can’t come up with much. Seeing new people engage in the church and begin following Jesus is one of the most exciting and encouraging things we get to witness.
But for many churches, the new people don’t seem to be coming all that often.Â
Why...
The work of a pastor is quite unique.
On any given day, you could be counseling a couple with a struggling marriage, planning a community outreach event, dealing with some HR concerns within your team, researching for a Bible Study, preparing for a sermon, reviewing building plans for an upcoming p...
As 2023 inches toward a close, it's a good time to take a step back and reflect on the year as a whole.
And as a part of that, I have compiled the most popular articles and videos of this year, according to you, the pastors who are a part of this community.
But before I get into all of the links, ...
There’s two types of sermons:
- Sermons that happen in the pulpit
- Sermons that invade the entire room
Which one do you want to preach?
It’s obvious, isn’t it? The sermon that invades the room.
But in order to preach that kind of sermon, you’ve got to engage your people in very real, practical...
When you stand up to preach, there are plenty of enemies lining up who want to destroy your sermon’s effectiveness.
Satan and his demons don’t want your sermon to cut to people’s hearts.Â
If we’re not careful, we can unintentionally add a few more enemies to the battlefield. Ones that we deployed....
What doesn’t kill you makes you…
My guess is that you would finish that sentence with, makes you stronger.Â
But are you living as if that’s true?Â
Many people, pastors even, in today’s society are not.
Instead, they look at challenge as harmful. Comfort as king. Excuses, a collection.
But I bel...
