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
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
Improve your Preaching with a Simple Online Tool
For those of you who have implemented my weekly message run-through, I have found a great tool I want to share with you. If you don’t know what a weekly message run-through is, check out this past blog where I explain it: http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/blog/2011/04/18/how-to-make-this-sundays-service-excellent-at-your-church/ Simply stated, the way you do the weekly message run-through will greatly affect the way the message goes … Read More