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
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
The Purpose of Preaching
This week I am going to share with you tips on developing your preaching calendar. This has been a growing area for me at the Journey as we have innovated some ways to plan our preaching and to plan our preaching together as a teaching team. It is really an interesting thing that we do as pastors, because we … Read More
The First Few Minutes Matter – Sermon Lessons from Hollywood
Around The Journey, we call it “The Hook” – it’s the first 3 to 5 minutes of the sermon that is designed to capture the attention of your audience and set the tone for the message you are to deliver. As a communicator, I’m always looking for examples of how to ‘set the tone’ to share God’s word and ‘capture the attention’ of … Read More
The Ten Commandments of Preaching
One of the decisions I made early on in my ministry was that I would do everything possible to cooperate with God to become the best preacher I could be. And I”m still committed to constant improvement. With that in mind, I read a great article recently by Tyler Scarlett, Pastor of Forest (Virginia) Baptist Church, and I want to … Read More
Four Keys to Maximize Your Preaching on Easter
Like I have been telling you the last couple of days, I’m committed to helping you Maximize Easter this year like never before! To help you make this the BEST EASTER EVER for your church, here are four keys to make the maximum possible impact with your preaching this Easter: 1- Begin a new Sermon Series on Easter Sunday, April 24. … Read More
Top 10 Signs Your Sermon Isn’t Going Well
Can’t we all use a chuckle on Monday morning? Here’s a list I saw recently from the folks at Preaching Magazine (www.Preaching.com): The Top 10 Signs Your Sermon Isn’t Going Well 13. Your associate pastor is warming up in the bullpen. 12. The praise band begins playing you off the stage. 11. The congregation is filling in the blanks of … Read More