[ 5 minutes to read ]How to not lose friends and anger people. [I]f you set about the preaching task with determined assiduity, it’s going to happen. You are going to say something that upsets…
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By Any Other Name
[ 5 minutes to read ]What should we call it? [S]ermon titles is not a riveting subject. Let’s just admit that up front and get that out of the way. In terms of what is…
Faded Jean Blues
[ 6 minutes to read ]On being your own man [S]purgeon urged his pastor’s college students to “throw away the servility of imitation and rise to the manliness of originality.”[ref]Spurgeon, Charles H.. Lectures to My…
This is Your First Rodeo
[ 3 minutes to read ]How to take your first church [A]fter preaching a while, you will be called to your first church. You will not be ready. Depending on the quality of mentoring, some…