Make these easy shifts as you prepare your sermons and you will improve your preaching in a pandemic. Have you felt it? The stakes of our preaching are higher than normal. So much hinges on our sermons these days because, for many, the weekend service is the only equipping and connection action they’re experiencing right […]
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How to Preach Theology in a Year and Watch your Congregation Grow
You can equip the people in your church to stand on a solid theological worldview. And these days, they really need it. Last summer at Family Camp, I found a quiet spot to work on my upcoming sermon schedule. I prayed, “Lord, where do you want us to go over the next few months?” He […]
How to Take Risks with your Sermons to Grow your Church
Take Calculated Risks to Create Sermon Series that Attract Newcomers One time we launched a new sermon series called, “How to Become a Superhero.” I didn’t come up with the title. I didn’t even like it at first. But then, I loved it. I was planning to do a series called, “The Me I Want to […]
Preach to Reach All 4 Kinds of Easter Guests
Pastors know that Easter is the most important day on our calendar. Not only did Jesus’ resurrection change eternity, but more lives can be reached and changed on Easter than any other day of the year. If you’ve done your inviting well, your Easter service will be filled with four types of people. Each of […]
How to Preach the Big Truths of the Reformation
It’s easy to preach about the Reformation. It’s never too late, because the people and the principles from the Reformation will help your church members grow up in their faith. They’ll get sound theology and world-view from the stories you’ll tell and the Scripture you’ll teach. Here’s how I preached it last weekend. Read on […]
How to Have 2 Awesome Hours of Sermon Prep
3 Ways to do your Best Sermon Prep and Have a Better Week What if you had two hours every day to be your most productive and do your best work? Imagine peak sermon writing productivity, or powering through your best thinking and planning. Here’s what I’m finding: two hours a day of peak creative […]
[Video] How long is too long for a sermon series?
Watch Now >> Ask a Mentor > How long is too long for a sermon series? Pastors have questions. This one came from the 2017 PastorMentor Survey. In this video, you’ll learn how long a sermon series should be to make newcomers feel like they belong, to create momentum, and to keep you interested in preaching it. And see how to […]
How to Preach Better this Weekend
Would you like to preach just a bit better this weekend? And even better the next weekend? What if you had the tips, ideas, insight, coaching and feedback to become a world-class preacher? That would be cool, right? Without turning your back on what you learned in your preaching class in seminary and from the master preachers in the […]
How to Preach a Powerful Altar Call
Do you struggle to see people come to Christ in your church? Maybe your church is one of the 9 out of 10 churches that aren’t leading people to Jesus. Would you like to be in the 10% of churches that are seeing growth by salvations? If so, one of the most important skills you must master as […]
4 Relationship Fences that will Help you Preach Better
Preach Better with a Few Relational Boundaries Each week, the most important time for all of us who preach or teach for a living is our preparation time. If you don’t hear from God in the study, you’re not likely to be used by God in the pulpit. Satan knows this, so if he has anything to […]