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Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt
The close of your sermon is an appropriate point at which to drive people to the specific demands of the text. I want people headed home each Sunday still wrestling with their need to put into action what they’ve just heard in God’s Word.
Ryan Huguley • 8 Hours or Less
To Arouse Interest in the Message The assumption that one’s listeners automatically share one’s own interest in the sermon is a mark of an inexperienced preacher.1 Such a preacher reasons that because God’s people should be interested in God’s Word, they will be interested in a discussion of it. Only in a perfect world would such an expectation hav
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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
Sharing the load produces a better end product. Remember, we are not simply after speed and efficiency. Anyone can crank out a lousy sermon in a few hours. There’s no skill in that. We’re after more: faithful sermons and better sermons.
Ryan Huguley • 8 Hours or Less
Unfortunately, we’ve conditioned ourselves to hear messages without responding. Sermons have become Christian entertainment. We go to church to hear a well-developed sermon and a convicting thought. We’ve trained ourselves to believe that if we’re convicted, our job is done. If you’re just hearing the Word and not actually doing something with it,
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