Here’s a question I’ve often pondered. Is preaching actually effective? We live in a world literally bombarded with information. Tools like Twitter, Instagram, texts, news alerts, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Snapchat, and Slack shove information at these computers we carry around in our pockets. Many of us are information weary – and then we tell people…
Category: Sermon Ideas
Winter Sermon Series
Hi folks. I’m beginning to prep my preaching calendar for 2010-2011 and I’d like some help (particularly from people connected to the Central Baptist community). We’ve got a good nine weeks between Epiphany Sunday (January 2) and the first Sunday of Lent (March 9). So I thought it might be interesting to see what questions…
A New Wordle
I’m preaching on the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) to conclude our series on stewardship. Just to see what would happen, I created a wordle out of my manuscript. I think it turned out OK, actually. Click on the image to see the larger view.
Sermon Painting from COAL
The audio is pretty bad, sorry. I’ll put up an audio verion synced with my slides from BibleTech09 when the audio becomes available. Still, this is usuable – I hope you find it useful:
Jesus – Wrong on Taxes
I’m preaching on Matthew 22:15-22 this week. As I wrote the manuscript I found myself thinking, “You know, the tension of the text would be perfectly illustrated by some faux attack ads.” Here’s the first one. Perhaps I’ll add some ominus music later.
Kingdom Collision is put together…
I started putting together my sermons for the coming year this past week. It’s a helpful discipline to me and I both look forward to it, and loath doing it, every year. It’s fun to see everything laid out – but oh the mental errors I make doing it! As I put together the readings…
