Preaching

Preaching – too much of a good thing?

My friend LT suggests that sermons may be like nitrogen in fertilizer. It’s necessary, yet too high a concentration is deadly: The point I try to make about sermons is that they

He gave some to be teachers

LT reacts to yesterday’s post on preaching by suggesting that preaching isn’t biblical or helpful: I see very few examples of anything resembling a sermon being preaching to those who have

More on sermon plagiarism

I’m really not sure how common sermon plagiarism is. If it is becoming more common, I think there are a few reasons: * a diminished view of preaching (not new – you read about

Confessions of a Sermon Thief

I wrote this article in 2002, and it appeared in the September-October 2004 issue of Preaching, but I’ve never published it online. It’s received new life recently because I was quoted

Communicating for a Change

Anyone who has heard Andy Stanley preach knows that he is an effective communicator. Now, Stanley and coauthor Lane Jones let us in on the secrets of effective preaching in Communicating for Change.