Music can be an integral part of your sermon. Sometimes an experience of Christ and a right theology can be internalized and embodied many times more than hearing it in words. It’s important to make sure that when you use music as a part of your sermon that it...
Let the children come…. If you want your young people to be in church, your teens, your young adults, then don’t take them out when they are young! Instead, create your sermons in a way that even the kids can participate. You can reach 6 and 66 year olds with…...
Your sermon is not a performance! If you are preparing, practicing, ready to give a performance, the sermon will end up all about “you” and nothing about Jesus. Your sermon is like a “connector” of a current that allows people to see Jesus better. Your sermon...
If you are not excited about the gospel, convinced of the power and presence of the living and breathing Christ in the here and now, if you are not authentically and visibly glowing with the presence of Christ, there is no way you will be able to enable a...
It’s not about you! Performance preaching is about you, all eyes on you, you talking, you in control. Participation preaching is about everyone, and above all about the presence of Jesus and how we all participate in the experience of Jesus. To learn “about” Jesus is...
Think of your preaching space as a playing field, where you can pass the ball to anyone at any given time. Perhaps someone jumps for it at one point. Perhaps several people share it at another time. Perhaps it doesn’t come back to you right away but gets passed...
