In your preaching, do you avoid certain passages of Scripture? I’m not only talking about the long lists of people who participated in the building of the tabernacle or the long lists of people who worked with Nehemiah. I’m including any passage of Scripture that you may feel is just too difficult for the people in your congregation to process and understand.

Many fine preachers purposely avoid the Book of Revelation. Oh, they may quote a verse or two from this mysterious Book to support some particular preaching theme. But, few pastors roll up their sleeves and dig into this Book in a way that will inspire their congregants to see the key theme and purpose of this last book of the New Testament.

In Podcast 237, I offer you, my fellow pastors, the reasons why I believe we should preach more from the Book of Revelation. I invite you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach website and listen to this Podcast.

After you hear what I have to say, I hope you will be inspired to at least carefully consider whether or not you should take the plunge and expose yourself and your congregation to an in-depth study of this wonderful Book.

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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When someone asks you to consider factual information, weigh your feelings about those facts, and come to a decision, do you ever need to take a moment of quiet and carefully make a choice as to how you will respond? If you do, you are very much like the vast majority of people in the world. Most people simply don’t make important decisions without having some time to consider what will be in their best interest.

When you preach your sermon each week, particularly when you share a critically important biblical truth, is it not reasonable, when you call for a response from the members of your congregation, to give them some time to think about the ramifications of the decision you are asking them to make? I think it’s very reasonable.

That’s the topic of Podcast 236. I extend this personal invitation to you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach.com website and listen to this Podcast. You will find appropriate links to the Podcast on the website homepage, both on the left-hand menu and in the center column.

I strongly believe that giving the congregation at least a few moments of silence to consider what you are urging them to do will allow more of your people to respond positively to your request. And, make certain you give them some “How-Tos” in the body of your sermon to help them choose a way to make the response you’re asking them to consider.

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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If something you do will be judged, you likely will want the very best judges doing the judging. Right?

When the expert bakers submit their pumpkin pies to the county fair for judging, they expect that the people acting as judges will be the best possible ones to judge a pumpkin pie. They don’t want to have judges who have never tasted pumpkin pie. They don’t want judges who dislike pie. They don’t want judges who have scarred their taste buds by smoking or drinking or some other harsh treatment. They want judges who really know pumpkin pie, so those judges can choose the best pie from all the entries.

So it is with our sermons. When we preach, we share what God has laid on our hearts, praying all the while that God will use our presentation of His truth to change the hearts, minds, and lives of the people in our congregation. We preach to help them along the pathway of ever-greater spiritual formation.

Does it not make sense, then, that the ones to best judge our sermons would be the very people for whom we have crafted our sermons? I think it does. And that is exactly the topic I have chosen for Podcast 235. I sincerely hope you will click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach.com website, so you can listen to this Podcast. I have recorded some thoughts especially for you, my fellow ministers.

Whether we want to have our sermons judged or not, they will be judged. It will be so much better if we seek feedback from the best ones to judge our sermons—the very ones to whom we are preaching. Please listen to this Podcast and see if you agree.

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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As pastors, do you ever ask someone you trust for an honest evaluation of your sermon? Oh, I realize that from time to time you may have someone in your congregation who has an all-too-eager bent to share with you everything that you could have said better as you preached your sermon. I’m not talking about snarky criticism.

No, I’m talking about helpful, forthright, yet kindly offered comments that will actually tip you off to some idiosyncratic speech patterns, or mispronunciations, or some other trait that is harming the effectiveness of your messages. Such honest feedback can significantly contribute to the advancement of your ministry on behalf of Christ.

I would like to explore this subject somewhat more thoroughly with you. Thus, I invite you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach.com website. Then, I suggest that you click the left-hand menu item that will take you to the appropriate page so you can listen to Podcast 234.

I have given several examples on the Podcast that I truly believe will prove helpful to you. As ministers, we all want to improve. In fact, that’s what Sermon-Coach.com is all about: helping pastors develop life-transforming ministries. I hope you’ll take this opportunity to listen to what I have to say.

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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