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If you’re looking for more sermon ideas on compassion and kindness, be sure to head over to SermonSearch.com to find 100’s of sermons on kindness to help you out! “And Jesus was going about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind … Continue reading “Preaching with Compassion”

Why all the fuss about inductive preaching? Is it preaching? Is it Christian)? Is it biblical?While inductive preaching is not a new methodology, the rising interest in it seems to have been initiated, at least in recent times, by the publication in 1971 of Fred Craddock’s definitive work on the subject, As One Without Authority. … Continue reading “Preaching Inductively As One With Authority”

You feel a knot in your stomach as you step to the pulpit. You are about to preach a sermon on an emotionally charged issue. This issue has been smoldering for weeks in your congregation. People are talking about it, asking questions, voicing strident opinions. You are determined to speak to it from the pulpit.But … Continue reading “Preaching On Controversial Issues: Keeping the Peace vs. Keeping the Purity”

Woody Hayes, legendary coach at Ohio State (1951-1978), ran an offense which the sportswriters dubbed “three yards and a cloud of dust.” When asked, “Woody, why don’t you ever throw a forward pass?” Hayes replied, “Three things can happen when you throw a forward pass, and two of them are bad.”In that same vein, I … Continue reading “Four Things Can Happen When You Alliterate, And Four of Them Are Bad”

Christian preaching, at its heart, is a proclamation of God’s truth as revealed in the pages of scripture. Over the centuries preaching has attempted to do many other things, but it has never made a lasting impact when it has focused on anything other than the Word.That is why effective preachers spend so much time … Continue reading “Exploring the Word: The 2000 Survey of Bible Reference for Preaching”

“I design plain truth for plain people”(John Wesley).While on a layover at the Salt Lake City airport, I began to pass the time by chatting with the captain of our flight. I soon discovered that he was unhappy because the air traffic controllers were threatening to go on strike.“Your contact with them is mainly by … Continue reading “Preaching To Be Understood”

As these words are written, the 2000 presidential election is winding into its final weeks. If the Postal Service does its job, you’ll be reading these words just a week or so before the nation goes to the polls to choose a new President. I can tell you’re all excited about it.Actually, presidential elections are … Continue reading “Let’s Put Politics Back in the Pulpit!”

In the May-June 2000 issue of Preaching, the Rev. Timothy Peck makes a passionate plea for “Salvaging the Old Testament Biographical Sermon.”1 In a biographical sermon, typically, the character described in the preaching-text is proclaimed as a positive model for imitation or as a negative model for warning. Since Rev. Peck has designated me as … Continue reading “Biographical Preaching Revisited”

Webster’s defines shame as “a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming or impropriety.” Social scientists Merle Fossum and Marilyn Mason write that experiencing feelings of shame can be like facing a dragon poised to mercilessly devour its victim.1 As with many other psychological disorders, feelings of shame are often inherited from our ancestors. … Continue reading “Preaching and Feelings of Shame: “The Minister’s Black Veil””

Walk north in Cambridge, England upon the stone streets on King’s Parade past King’s College. Continue as King’s Parade turns into Trinity Street as then it turns into St. John’s Street. Look to your left and you will see a black, wrought iron gate and an old red brick building of antiquity. Or take the … Continue reading “The Candle of Erasmus: Rediscovering Ancient Text as a Tool for Contemporary Preaching”