Ten Disciplines of a Godly Pastor
How do you cultivate godliness as a pastor? This article explains ten disciplines of a godly pastor.
How do you cultivate godliness as a pastor? This article explains ten disciplines of a godly pastor.
Because God seeks to be worshipped on his own terms, worship should have God as the only audience, it cannot be a form of entertainment and it must have an eternal impact.
How do you choose songs for a worship service? This article suggests seven ways.
How do you know if you are in a healthy church? Here are seven signs of a healthy church, based on the New Testament letters.
How do you build a biblical church ministry? There are five essential things you need to do to, according to this article.
A wedding sermon gives a pastor opportunity to place the wedding in the context of worship and faith, and to speak about the theological vitality of marriage. This article gives guidance for preparing such a wedding sermon by looking at the choice of a text, length of the sermon, and content of it.
How does one go about preparing for preaching? This article presents and discusses three aspects involved in preparing the pastor: spiritual, mental, and logistical preparation.
The kingdom of God was central to the preaching of Jesus. This article surveys the Gospels on this point, explains four components of kingdom-focused preaching (from Mark 1:14), and challenges the reader to appropriate kingdom involvement.
A sermon introduction is important for grabbing the attention of the listeners. This article offers seven different ways to design sermon introductions.
What is the goal of preaching? Who is your preaching about? This article explains that preaching is a matter of the heart being pointed toward Christ.
The church is not dependent on money for survival; the church's well being rests on the all-sufficient God, who is abundant in his care for his church. This article focuses on the sufficiency of God and his grace.
What are the necessary steps you can take to improve in preaching? This article offers three steps: get the congregational evaluation of preaching, help and encourage your spouse to evaluate you, and do self-evaluation.
How can you preach in such a way that people remain awake? Engage the imagination. This article suggests six ways you can engage the imagination of people in your preaching.
Why is preaching with conviction at the heart of effective preaching? Because such preaching is penetrating, persuasive, and personal.
Preaching God's Word to his people implies addressing the needs of the church through the Word. This article explains that it is important to preach to crisis needs, and identifies common crisis needs and how preaching should address them.
Preaching God's Word to his people implies addressing the needs of the church through the word. This article explains that preaching to the grieving is crucial, and identifies different kinds of grief to which preaching must speak.
Preaching God's Word involves addressing the needs of the church. This article explains that preaching to the emotional needs of people is crucial. It explains the dangers of psychological preaching and addresses a proper way of preaching to emotional needs.
Effective preaching and preaching to an involved congregation are the desires of every preacher. How do you get to preach in a way that the congregation becomes involved? This article considers five things: challenge their presuppositions, let them overhear the gospel, identify with people, dialogue with them, and preach for liberation.
In this article Kaiser presents an exposition and application of Hebrews 13:20-21, and focuses on the meaning of peace as an important aspect of the passage.
Kaiser reflects on what he perceives to be a crisis in expository preaching. He first defines what he understands expository preaching to be, then analyzes the current problems, and ends with a proposal of what the focus and duty of preaching needs to be.