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Does Your Preaching Change Lives?

How can our preaching lead to Christ-like convictions that produce Christ-like character?

Does Your Preaching Include the Freedom of the Spirit?

We are aided by God’s powerful Spirit, who will blow us places we’d never imagined.

Check Yourself: 20 Questions Every Preacher Should Ask

A mental checklist to evaluate your sermon before you preach.

When Your Message Ends, Where Are People Focused?

Traditional preaching tends to leave listeners focused on themselves.

Preach the Gospel, Not the Garnish

The common blessings that all humans enjoy, regardless if they’re Christians or not, are often referred to as “common grace.”

Does Fear Have Any Place in Your Preaching?

"Preach as though never sure to preach again, a dying man for dying men!" —Richard Baxter

We Should Preach a Message That Destroys Their World

I confess, I have had my world destroyed more than a few times at Life on the Vine gatherings, by the sermon in worship. And it’s been good.

Is It Any Wonder People Are Bored With Our Sermons?

Perhaps it’s time for creative preaching to make a comeback.

Preach Like a Combat Medic

Get in the fight! People are wounded and bleeding.

Is Your Preaching a Self-Help Video, or Something More?

Traditional preaching tends to leave listeners focused on themselves.

Does Your Preaching Draw a Line From the Bible to Real Life?

The sermon is not a biblical lecture designed merely to inform the hearer of some interesting facts.

Jesus Preached to Doubters. You Can, Too.

The Gospels are little more than one story after another of people struggling to believe.

In Preaching, "Should" Can Be a Four-Letter Word

The thing that makes those “shoulds” so tricky is that they are often attached to really good things.

You Can Defend the Faith (But You Don't Have To Rant)

No one can do any of this in the flesh and by himself.

That Awkward Moment When You Feel Like You've Wasted Your Time in the Pulpit

Perhaps you really have wasted your time, unless you answer this final, vital, question.

Why Are So Many People Afraid to Claim the Role of Church Leader?

There are two types of leaders in the church, those who have it by position and those who have it by the way they live.

If the Scripture Is Funny, Why Not Laugh?

Still more important, when there’s humor in Scripture, don’t forget to laugh.

Seven Secret (and Deadly) Pulpit Sins

It is increasingly common today to hear parts of the gospel proclaimed.

Every Preacher's Choice: Clean the House—or Wreck It

Are we as preachers speaking the Word that the people need or are we accommodating their assumptions?

Remains of Pastor’s Wife and Friend Identified; OK County GOP Chair...

News surfaced this week that Tifany Machel Adams is the GOP chair for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Adams is one of four suspects charged with kidnapping and murdering pastor's wife Jilian Kelley and Kelley's friend Veronica Butler.

Rebecca McLaughlin on Whether Christians Can Agree To Disagree About Same-Sex...

Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can respond to common arguments that use the Bible to affirm same-sex relationships, the “why” behind God’s design for marriage, and the “beautiful and glorious vision” Christianity has for friendship.

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