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How Your Church Members Could Make Your Sermons Better—Before You Preach Them
A pastor’s sermon might feel like his baby, but it’s important to remember that it takes a community to raise a child.
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Helpful Hacks for Preaching from a Manuscript
Hopefully these hacks will help you preach from a manuscript in such a way that your preaching feels more natural, free, passionate, and powerful.
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The Frankenstein Sermon
Expositional preaching, no matter how homiletically astute, is dead when it lacks holy passion.
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Serious Joy in Preaching
The kind of joy God wants our people to experience as they hear from his Word every Sunday is deeper than our sense of humor can go.
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So, You Want to Be a Pastor?
Here is my appeal to the aspiring pastor: brother, count the cost.
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Can You Reverse Engineer Revival?
We must labor to excel in establishing the necessary conditions for revival, all while remembering that our triune God has predetermined the sufficient conditions for revival in eternity past.
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The Prosperity Gospel Loves God’s Gifts, But Ignores God Himself
When you see a church or ministry that talks about God’s gifts but spends relatively little time talking about God’s character or our need to respond to him in repentance and faith, then you can be pretty sure you’re dealing with the prosperity gospel.
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Three Reasons You Should Preach Through 2 John
The little books of the Bible like 2 John often get neglected, don’t they? But they shouldn't.
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What Does 2 John Have to Teach Us about Partnering with False Teachers?
We must not align ourselves with false teachers, apostate churches, or any of their ministries in any way that will confuse people about the truth of the gospel and the identity of Jesus.
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Mailbag #84: I Live too Far from A Healthy Church. What Should I Do? . . . Among Baptists, What’s the History of a Plurality of Elders?
— I live in an extremely rural area where we have many churches but none that are healthy. What should I do? — Many Baptist churches now have multiple elders. I understand the biblical case for this, but what's the history of a plurality of elders among Baptists?
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Preacher, Study the Text—But Also Study Your People
A preacher who studies the text but not his people is missing out on clearer application and more nuanced communication.
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Book Review: The Art of Turning, by Kevin DeYoung
Christians need to think more clearly about our innate moral calibration mechanism, and I’m confident this little book will help us do just that.