I’d like to offer my brand-new, life-transforming book The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, for only $1.00. This evangelism book contains the latest ways to effectively share your faith and make a Kingdom impact! This simple yet substantial book contains tips and strategies for inviting others to church and sharing your faith in a non-threatening way. … Read More
5 Benefits of Planning a One-Year Preaching Calendar
This is Kerrick Thomas – and for the last 12 years I’ve served alongside of Nelson Searcy as Executive Pastor of The Journey Church. I’m guest blogging today and would like to talk to you about the benefits of planning out your preaching calendar. As a teaching pastor, I’m very familiar with the weekly grind of preaching week in and … Read More
Preaching Preparation and Delivery: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Every coin has two distinct sides: heads and tails. If a coin didn’t have these two sides, it wouldn’t be a legitimate coin at all; it would be an unusable hunk of metal. Similarly, your preaching is comprised of two distinct elements: your personal preparation and your delivery. The two bind together to produce teaching that the Holy Spirit can … Read More
Richard Baxter on How to Preach
“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” – Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
A.W. Tozer on Effective Preaching
“To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.” – A.W. Tozer
How to Plan and Conduct a Christmas Offering – it’s not too late!
As the old carol says about Christmas, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” But when does that “time of the year” actually begin? Every year, the push toward Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier. Before the fall leaves hit the ground, we see Christmas trees revealed in all their glory through shop windows. By now, children are … Read More
Poisons That Will Kill Any Church
Today’s guest post comes to us from Todd Gaddis. He has been a pastor since 1990, serving at First Baptist of LaFayette, Georgia, and has authored 11 books. I read recently that thousands of churches close their doors every year. Who knows how many others are on life support? We live in a time when churches need revitalization and renewal. The … Read More
Magic Words to Improve Your Worship Services – Part 1
On a recent Strategy and Briefing Call with my Renegade Pastors Network, I shared some powerful phrases that I use at The Journey Church during our Sunday worship services. You too can use these words to tie various elements of your worship services together and ensure smooth transitions. Little phrases can have big power. That’s part of the weekly challenge … Read More
Charles Simeon on Christianity
“We shall do well ever to remember that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.” – Charles Simeon, (September 24, 1759 – November 13, 1836)
What Makes Christianity Distinctive Today?
Today’s guest post comes to us from Joseph Hartropp for ChristianityToday.com. Christians today sometimes think about attacks on religion coming from ‘godless secularism’ or ‘post-enlightenment thinking’ but a brief survey of the Church in its early life show that it has always been under attack, and often for similar reasons and in similar ways to what we’re familiar with today. … Read More