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Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt
If your sermon is confusing, it means you haven’t worked diligently enough on behalf of your listeners.
Ryan Huguley • 8 Hours or Less
Anyway, the point I’m trying to get to is that if giving direct advice to one individual in the real world is often a waste of breath then what does this say about the generic, scattershot, shouting-through-a-bullhorn advice that people dish out online each and every day? Not only am I convinced that such actions- whose motive is to build a pliant ... See more
Thomas Bevan • On The Futility of Offering Advice
Passion comes naturally to sermons when preachers speak as though they are addressing a real concern with a friend. If a friend were to come to our door one evening and confess that his teenage son is destroying his family, we would invite the friend to sit at our kitchen table, and we would talk plainly. The hurt in our friend’s eyes would dissuad
... See moreBryan Chapell • Christ-Centered Preaching
remembering that behavior is always a better example than a lecture.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
This foe too often arises as an unrecognized side effect of a well-intended quest for authority. Evangelical preachers reacting to the secularization of both culture and church can mistakenly make moral instruction or societal reform the primary focus of their messages. No one can blame these preachers for wanting to challenge the evils of the day.
... See moreBryan Chapell • Christ-Centered Preaching
When a preacher says, “What we should do” or “What you should believe,” the sermon automatically moves out of the abstract.