Preaching Points : 55 Tips for Improving Your Pulpit Ministry.
This volume is a collection of some of the best of the hundreds of Preaching Points that the Haddon W. Robinson Center for Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary has produced. Preaching Points is a weekly podcast on iTunes U that features conversations on preaching by Haddon Robinson, Jeff...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgments; The Authors; Introduction; Preach the Big Idea; Go to the Bible to hear God speak; Soak yourself in the text; Being biblical and contemporary is the art of Christian communication; Speaking truth to people takes moral courage; We need scholarly evangelists and evangelistic scholars; Sermon preparation is twenty hours of prayer; Match the mood of the text; Give your listeners the opportunity to respond to the message; Make preaching a priority; Guard your sermon preparation time; Preach the principle; Drain the liquid; Interrupt your preaching plan.
- Don't just get feedback, get feedforwardA wise leader works exercise into his or her schedule; Lay hold of the Bible until the Bible lays hold of you; Use your introduction to set up the body of the message; The essence of good preaching is unity, order, and progress; Diversify your illustrations; Conclusions should come to a burning focus; It doesn't all depend on you; Preach as a dying man to dying men; Be yourself when you preach; Mobilize your language and send it into battle; The better you know yourself, the better you can serve God in the situation in which God has placed you.
- Feed my lambs, not feed my giraffesPreach to the outer edges; In our preaching, less is more; Remember the ERP Factor; Preach "we" more than "you"; Study your listeners; Paper is a poor conductor of heat; Effective preachers exegete the Bible and their people; Observant preachers make insightful preachers; Adapt to genderlects; Preach to one person at a time; People-pleasing puts the pulpit in peril; Preach to those you want to come; Take a survey of who's listening; Gentleness isn't for wimps; Preach about money; We need reminders; Good preachers own wastebaskets and use them.
- You need ten "'atta boys" for every one "you jerk"Go to the balcony; Praise your listeners before correcting them; Give your listeners verse numbers; Pastors are soul-watchers; Preachers can create a culture; Strengthen yourself in the Lord; The disease of modern preaching is its search after popularity; Guest preaching doesn't have to be a guessing game; Pastors are preachers and preachers are pastors; A crown awaits elders who lead well.
