I wonder what proportion of gospel preachers really preach the radical message of God’s grace, and how many feel the need to qualify it and augment it and protect it? When we preach grace, how do we over-qualify it?

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What Color Were Jesus’s Eyes?

Ray Hollenbach - May 31, 2023

In my experience too many Christians are taught to avoid subjective experiences with God. At the close of William Sampson’s wonderful book, Meeting Jesus, he asks, “What was the color of Jesus’s eyes?”

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We Don’t Need Cops in the Pulpit — We Need the Yoke of Discipleship

Ray Hollenbach - May 8, 2023

There's a big difference between drawing a crowd and preaching a sermon. The church is desperate for life-giving preachers who urge us to take the yoke of discipleship.

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Preaching About It IS Doing Something About It

Brandon Cox - April 12, 2023

It seems like all “we” do is preach about problems without actually doing something about them.

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After Easter – 5 Vital Steps for What Comes Next

Ray Hollenbach - April 10, 2023

Is the singing and shouting over? Jesus encountered the disciples on Easter Sunday, but what after Easter: about Monday, or Tuesday, or beyond?

Preaching & Teaching

Celebrate Easter Week: But Choose Carefully!

Ray Hollenbach - April 3, 2023

This week, Church Leaders face a dizzying array of choices. Choose carefully, pastor!

Pastors

Why Does Paul Use That Downer Verse From Psalm 44 in Romans 8?

Mike Leake - February 8, 2023

Psalm 44 is still going to happen to you as a Christian. That means you are going to at times feel like God has “sold his people for a trifle”.

Pastors

How to Format Your Sermon to Maximize Personal Connection

Brandon Kelley - February 6, 2023

What do the sermon notes you preach from look like? Have you ever thought about it? The way you format your sermon notes will partly determine how much you look at them.

Preaching & Teaching

5 Different Ways to Prepare a Sermon: Pastors Share Their Secrets

Brandon Kelley - February 3, 2023

It’s interesting how many different ways different pastors prepare a sermon. Five different pastors share what a week of sermon prep looks like for them.

Pastors

3 Reasons Why You Should Pray the Day After the Sermon

Ray Hollenbach - December 14, 2022

God is leading me to a new level of faithfulness after the sermon. Not just a quick summary prayer at the end of the message, but prayer in the nights and days that follow.

Pastor How To's

50% of Pastors Don’t Believe They Have Strong Preaching

Gavin Adams - December 12, 2022

You may never be as good as your strong preaching idol, but that’s not your calling or goal. Your goal is to be the best version of yourself.

Pastors

4 Christmas Lessons From Joseph of Nazareth

Ray Hollenbach - December 7, 2022

We get the Christmas story from the scriptures. Good preaching highlights the fact that Christmas stories are also scripture Christmas lessons.

Preaching & Teaching

Narrative Preaching: Do You Make these 10 Mistakes?

Peter Mead - December 5, 2022

Let's consider the pitfalls we must avoid in order to preach with power when we take up narrative preaching. Too many preachers miss these vital skills necessary to preach the narrative portions of the scripture

Articles for Outreach & Missions

15 Great Christmas Sermon Tips Every Preacher Needs

Peter Mead - December 2, 2022

There's no shortage of advice for Christmas sermons -- and we need all the help we can get! Peter Mead of BiblicalPreaching.net offers 15 practical suggestions for Christmas sermons.

Pastors

5 Christmas Preaching Ideas From One Passage

Ray Hollenbach - November 30, 2022

There might be enough material to ignite all of your Christmas preaching in just one passage. Take Luke’s famous account of the annunciation.

Preaching & Teaching

Making Disciples: 3 Texts You Must Preach

Ray Hollenbach - November 7, 2022

We're called to fulfill the Great Commission, which means making disciples. Here are three foundational passages for anyone who longs to preach about something more than a fire-insurance relationship with Jesus.

Articles for Pastors

7 Deadly Sins of Guest Preaching

Chris Pascarella - November 4, 2022

Stay away from these deadly sins and have your next guest preaching opportunity go better than you ever imagined!

Pastors

The Path to Becoming Complete in Christ

Ray Hollenbach - November 2, 2022

The Apostle Paul exchanged one kind of teaching for another. As a result, he had but one goal for his converts: that they would resemble Jesus, that is, become complete in Christ.

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