I was a young pastor fresh out of Bible college once, and I’ve had the privilege of working with many young people in ministry. There are a lot of things about working in ministry that are challenging, and it’s easy to get discouraged and frustrated when you work at a church. There are a lot…
Is it possible to be an iPad only pastor? Can an iPad replace a pastor’s computer? And maybe a bigger question is should a pastor even consider using an iPad as their only computer? I’m a full-time pastor, and I’ve used an iPad since the early days, but it has always been a second or…
Pastor plagiarism is in the news. Some prominent pastors have come under fire recently for plagiarizing the work of others, specifically in their preaching. I wish I could say that this is shocking, but it happens all the time. I’ve seen pastors take entire sermons from other pastors and preach it like it was their…
How can you continue to improve your preaching? Sure, you can get experience and write more and better sermons, but one critical way to improve that lazy pastors skip is sermon evaluation. What can you learn from the message you already preached? This is the third part of a three part series on the basics…
What are the basics for sermon delivery? How do you preach with confidence and power? This is the 2nd part of a three-part series on the basics of how to preach. If you missed part one, go check that out now, and then come back here. Part one is all about sermon preparation—writing the message….
Learning how to preach can be scary. Very few people are excited by the idea of standing before a crowd of people, with all eyes on them, to deliver a thirty-minute or longer sermon. Public speaking was always on the top of my list of greatest fears—just below death, spiders, and talking to girls. It’s…
What are you preaching about this week? What about next week? Or the week after that, or the week after that, and then the week after that? Do you know? If you preach once a week, that’s a ton of new sermon content that you are creating each year! Some of you are preaching even…
How can I balance ministry and family? It’s a question that burns in the hearts of a lot of pastors and ministry workers. Until Jesus returns, the work of ministry is never finished. There’s always another person to reach and another sermon to preach. If you let it, your ministry will overtake all of your…
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