Readers are leaders, and leaders are learners. As a leader of God’s people, you can’t ever be done growing, learning and improving. The day you stop learning is the day you stop growing, and often the start of your decline. You need to develop an insatiable appetite for life-long learning. And today, with the internet…
One of my favorite things about running this website is getting emails from readers. You guys are awesome. You ask great questions and challenge me to think deeper and more clearly. I got an email this week asking a great question that most new pastors have but are afraid to ask. So I got permission…
It’s a long week and there’s not enough coffee in the world. You have exhausted your preaching, but another sermon must come. So you stare at the screen as the blinking cursor mocks you. Come on. Think! The words come slow. Do you ever struggle with the blank page in your sermon preparation? Honestly, most…
84% of pastors use a standard word processing application for sermon writing. Sermonary is working to change that. Sermonary is a new online tool launching today that promises to help pastors build their sermon more efficiently by writing, presenting, and storing their sermons on a single platform After launching on kickstarter a few months ago, Sermonary…
Unfair criticism. All pastors get it. It doesn’t matter who you are or what size your church is. Criticism is coming your way. So what should you do when you get that email or comment card (because the biggest critics rarely have the courage to speak to you face-to-face) and your blood begins to boil?…
We’ve all endured ugly sermons. The delivery was poor. The explanation of the text was lacking. The outline was difficult to follow. Maybe it was boring. The speaker was visibly nervous and obviously struggling. The pastor rambled and not even he seemed to know where he was going with the message. Whatever the situation, it…
Early in his ministry, Martin Luther sarcastically described his “lazy” life of ministry in Wittenberg: “All day long I do nothing but write letters…. I preach at the monastery, I am a lector during mealtimes, I am asked daily to preach in the city church, I have to supervise the program of study… I lecture…
The average pastor spends 8-15 hours a week on sermon preparation. Great preaching requires this time at least. But did you know that after 24 hours, people only remember around 25% of what you say, and within a week they may remember only 10% or less? Most people in your church can’t even remember what…
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