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Creative Doorways into a Psalm and Sermon
Creative Doorways into a Psalm and Sermon It takes imagination, not just analysis, to recreate the impact of a Psalm. Image: Noorulabdeen Ahmad / Unsplash How can we preach psalms in a way that recreates some of the meditative, emotional, imaginative, and collaborative effects the poets built into their hymns? Preachers need look no further than the communication strategies of the text. Some of those strategies can be incorporated directly into our sermons.
Embracing technology to fulfill The Great Commission
By James O. Davis and Leonard Sweet, Op-ed contributor | Monday, January 24, 2022 Unsplash/NordWood Themes Technology, specifically the smartphone, has become a part of who we are, a complete extension of our thoughts and actions. Because of that prevalence, however, technology can easily become a distraction that consumes and even controls our lives.
What Preachers Can Learn from Sportswriters
What Preachers Can Learn from Sportswriters How to find the back story, put the picture in a frame, and stick the landing. Image: fotosipsak / Getty I can picture you, and I can picture him, and there is no resemblance. You stand behind a pulpit or lectern in your Sunday best, business casual, or dressed-down look, according to your church’s fashion. But he (and it was almost always a “he”), that famed sportswriter of the 1950s, wore an overcoat and a fedora on chilly nights in the press box.
Four Powerful Preaching Practices from Martin Luther King Jr.
Four Powerful Preaching Practices from Martin Luther King Jr. King knew his context, developed a mantra, offered winsome challenge, and employed metaphors Image: Adoralia / Lightstock The preaching of Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t merely inspire a congregation, which would be no small task; it inspired a massive movement.
Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ eBook: Sweet, Leonard, Viola, Frank: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
“So that in everything He might have the supremacy.” —Colossians 1:18 Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, methods, techniques, formulas, "its" and "things" have all eclipsed the beauty, the glory, and the reality of the Lord Jesus Himself. On the whole, Christians today are starved for a real experience of the living Christ. We know a lot about our Lord, but we don't know Him very well.
James O. Davis and Leonard Sweet
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Preaching Pictures from Revelation
I expected my sermon series on Revelation to challenge me and my congregation. But I didn't expect that it would also stretch the way I prepared my sermons. It seems fitting now, in hindsight, that such a colorful and evocative text might require a new approach. My love for the book of Revelation began in Bible College. The professor of my Revelation class would often say "Don't get too caught up in the details.
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