I don’t know anyone who would argue against the fact that the hallmark of true faith in Christ is an outpouring of His great love. Scripture records in John 13:35 these words of Jesus:

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

In our preaching, how do we promote this Christ-like love? One way is to share with our congregations one of the main attributes of historic times of revival. That’s the subject I chose for the featured Podcast this week, Podcast No. 41.

In order to listen to how I develop this topic, I invite you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach website. Once there, you can listen to my suggestions for bringing the subject of God-breathed love alive in the hearts and minds of the people in your congregations.

We pastors must continually seek for ways to help the pathway of spiritual formation become vibrant in the day-to-day lives of the people God has placed in our charge. I think you will find my suggestions helpful. At least that was my prayer, as I recorded this Podcast.

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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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From time to time, we pastors need to remind the people in our congregations why we gather for worship. We need to illustrate how the very Presence of Christ in our midst should motivate us to give Him the honor that He deserves.

One way to help our people understand the critical importance of worship is to share with them how God’s people have reacted during times of historic revival. We can learn much from the overwhelming and very natural response people make when a great revival sweeps through the land.

To help you get a fuller picture of such times, I have devoted the featured Podcast this week—Podcast No. 40—to this subject. I invite you to click the link on this page to go to my Sermon-Coach website where you can listen to this Podcast.

In this difficult times in our land, we need to motivate our people to pray for revival. Helping them visualize what such times have looked like in the past will give them a needed edge as they pray. Certainly that’s a worthy endeavor for us to undertake.

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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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There are, of course, a number of ways for a pastor to develop his or her sermons. Any pastor who has served long enough has likely developed a pattern that works. At the same time, it is possible to make some significant “tweaks” that can enhance the effectiveness of your sermons.

That opportunity to make some “tweaks” really helped motivate me to start my Sermon-Coach.com website. I wanted to share some of what I had learned over my many years of pastoring and serving as a radio and television preacher—tips that I am convinced will help any pastor willing to employ them to improve his or her sermons.

That’s not at all an arrogant boast on my part. In fact, I feel very humbled to have the opportunity to engage with so many pastors in this way. Based on feedback I’ve received, I know that my suggestions help.

This week, I want to continue a review of the “Sermon-Coach Method of Sermon Development” by illustrating in Podcast No. 73 how to select a Scriptural text and by asking four key questions then target that text to fit the needs of your congregation. If you would like to listen to my suggestions, please click the link on this page that will take you to my website and, then, click to listen to this “Featured Podcast of the Week.”

God has chosen to use pastors as His human instruments in the proclamation of His Truth. We need to make certain we are using every possible resource to accomplish that very important responsibility in as engaging and life-transforming a way as possible.

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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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