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Last year we looked at 10 things that can make you feel stale as a preacher. Here are 10 ideas to refresh your preaching.
How can you recapture your passion (assuming, of course, preaching God’s word is something you once loved)? In this article I want to identify ’10 Stale Makers’. Ten things that can hurt or kill your passion for preaching.
You’ve probably heard the saying a “failure to plan is a plan to fail” and the wisdom of that statement certainly applies to preaching. If we don’t map out what we are going to do and what we are aiming for we will probably miss the mark.
So what is the aim of the preacher?
When it comes to choosing a passage to preach you may have no choice: perhaps it’s given to you from the outset. But inasmuch as you have a choice, the key is to keep it simple.
Interview between The Gospel Coalition Australia and Mike Raiter about books and reading.
The most important purpose of the illustration is to aid understanding. Someone has said, “if you can’t illustrate it, you don’t understand it”.
After the amazing grace of salvation, God’s greatest kindness to me is to appoint me a preacher of his Word. I never want to forget the wonder of that.
Being entirely "seeker-oriented" is not really an option for Christ centered worship. But being "seeker-sensitive" is still an appropriate way to think about worship. Being "seeker-sensitive" is not the same as being "seeker-oriented."