Thanks to an overwhelming response, I have opened up six more sessions of the “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar” webinar! You have another opportunity to participate this week – but hurry, before these also fill up! The first one starts at TODAY 11 a.m ET, and then again at 2 p.m. And if you can’t make it today, there are … Read More
LAST CHANCE! Reduce Stress – Maximize Creativity – Honor God All Year!
Yesterday’s webinars were a great success! And if you missed out, don’t worry! Today is your LAST CHANCE to register. There’s still space available for today’s and tomorrow’s webinars – “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar“. The first one today starts at 11 a.m ET, but I also have two time additional time slots for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET. … Read More
Let’s Plan Your 2014 Preaching Calendar Together – FREE Webinars Today, Wed and Thurs ONLY!
Today I am excited to do the first of 9 webinars I’m leading called “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar.” My bestselling “Planning a One Year Preaching Calendar” resource lays out the principles of how to plan your preaching a year in advance, but this week I want to go a step further! That’s why I’m doing this series of webinars for pastors called “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar,” where … Read More
How to Save Yourself Hours of Planning– Starts Tomorrow!
I’d like to invite you to join me for an upcoming “Planning Your 2014 Preaching Calendar” webinar that starts TOMORROW! This webinar will help relieve your stress and increase your creativity by planning your preaching. I’ve just added a few upcoming times on three different days – Tomorrow, November 12th, November 13th and November 14th. These are the same webinars, … Read More
Nine Simple Steps to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Preaching
I want to help you double the effectiveness of your preaching with a simple nine-step process. One of the first rules actors learn is to speak the words of a script out loud before they go into an audition room. Why? Because no matter how many times they run through their part in their head, no matter how well they’ve … Read More
Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Preaching -Part 1
Does your congregation remember what you preached last Sunday? How about the Sunday before that? I don’t want to burst your bubble, but numerous studies over the years have shown that people forget the majority of the information they hear from a communicator within 24 hours. As pastors, most of us have fooled ourselves into thinking that our preaching is … Read More
Two Types of Sermons Series To Help Your People
Yesterday, I mentioned on my blog the “Attract” Sermons Series (click here to read that post). Today, I want to share with you two more types of sermon series that will help bring about a more well-rounded preaching plan. A Growth Sermon Series: The Growth Sermon Series in your message lineup are those series that can make the biggest impact … Read More
Preach Better Sermons By Having One Goal: Radically Transformed Lives
The most important offensive stat in baseball is not home-runs or stolen bases or even batting average, it’s RBI’s (Runs Batted In). The more runs a team is able to score, the better the chance that team has to succeed. So, one of the most significant questions for any baseball manager is this: How can I set my batting lineup so that … Read More
Reaching Unchurched People through Your Preaching
This week I am emphasizing the importance of planning your preaching. I want to encourage you to start looking at your preaching calendars and, if you haven’t done so already, start planning for your Fall Sermon Series. The Fall is typically one of the best times of the year to maximize your outreach to the unchurched. People are getting back … Read More
How do You Measure the Effectiveness of Your Preaching
How do you measure the success of your preaching? How do you know that your preaching is effective? And how do you measure it all? At the Journey we started thinking about how baseball teams measure the effectiveness of their offence by Runners Batted In. We started to think about preaching in terms of RBIs—how do we move people … Read More