If you’re like most preachers, much of your sermons focus on abstract topics. You can’t be faithful to scripture without preaching on grace, hope, love, sacrifice, and redemption—all powerful, gospel-centered topics but all basically abstract. Presbyterian Pastor Clarence E. MacCartney once described sermons that camped out in these abstract concepts as “windowless,” as towers— “solid,…
How to write a sermon in 7 easy steps READ WATCH LISTEN One of the biggest frustrations we commonly see among pastors is their ability to shift their focus so quickly from one week to the next as they align their mind and heart towards a new message. Pastors want to be effective in their…
On the surface, we don’t know much about you. We don’t know if or where you went to seminary. We don’t even know where you’re located in the world or what your church’s demographics look like. We can’t say with certainty whether your Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist, Anglican, some other denomination, or no denomination at all….
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We’re constantly working on ways to make Sermonary better for you, and today we have some new and updated features that we’re excited to tell you about! Share Your Sermon You now have two great options in your Share settings: 1. Send a podium view of your sermon by simply copying a URL and sending…
Preachers should be eager to present biblical narratives, as they comprise about 40% of the pages of Scripture and are presented in a storytelling form that is universally interesting. They also have the appeal of being less direct—that is, less “preachy”—which appeals to many younger hearers. Narratives, though, are also hard to interpret. They do…
This is a guest post Scott Magdalein, the founder of TrainedUp and a pastor in Jacksonville, Florida We all trust in things every day. We trust that a chair will hold us or that our car will start. We trust a spouse to wake us up from a nap on time or a friend to pick…
Perhaps in your preaching ministry, you have been working your way through a book of the Bible or preaching from a lectionary, and the next passage you come to isn’t as exciting, interesting, or easily applicable as other passages of Scripture. You may not come across these sorts of texts often—but when you do, they…
I was recently asked if preaching is just another way of saying “teaching.” Implicit in this question is a deeper matter pointing to the content, character, and purpose of proclamation in the life and mission of the church. In conversations around this topic, I am often told by others that their church doesn’t have “sermons”…
After getting funded in only two hours on Kickstarter, we knew we had to get Sermonary in the hands of pastors as soon as possible. On September 12th, we opened up Sermonary Beta to the public. Since then, reviews have started to come in, and we wanted to share a few of them with you….
Have you heard the joke about the stuttering Bible salesman? (The punchline: He sells so many by asking his clients, “Do you want to buy a Bible, or should I read it to you?”) I have—and it is cringe-worthy. One time, I even heard a preacher tell the joke to open his message. Though there…
As a teenager, I once sat through a conference session in which the primary speaker stressed how it was better to be an unrepentant, sin-loving pagan of a person than to be a Christian who waffled back and forth between pursuing holiness and imbibing worldliness. His justification for this stance was the letter to Laodicea…
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