Preaching
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Easter Weekend Review
(Warning to reader: I haven’t blogged much these past few days, but I’m more than making up for it today!) Work hard. Play hard. That’s the way to live, and that’s how it’s been this past week. A review of events since last week’s Maundy Thursday service: On Friday morning I got a call from Continue reading
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Preaching: Greatness or Effectiveness?
One of the best preaching blogs on the Internet is “Biblical Preaching.” I don’t know how they come up with such rich and helpful material every day! Today Peter Mead writes on there about the difference between being a great preacher and being an effective preacher, and he explains why we should aim for effectiveness Continue reading
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Update on the “Creed” Series
Last fall at CrossWay we began a major series called “Creed.” The goal of this series is to explore up close each of the 24 topics in the Mennonite Confession of Faith. To avoid having a massive, half-year series, we divided it up into miniseries and scheduled some breaks in between. At the end of Continue reading
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Loving God, Loving People
On Sunday at CrossWay Church we continued the series “The Promised Land” by looking at our strategy for accomplishing our church’s mission. A brief recap to set the context: the purpose of the church is to glorify God. That happens when we accomplish our mission, which is to make lifelong followers of Jesus Christ in Continue reading
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Another Preaching Learning Experience
It seems I’m constantly finding out not only how much I don’t know, but how little I knew there was so much I didn’t know. Make sense? Welcome to my world. Yesterday when I prepared the latest CrossWay podcast, I learned how important it is to wear the right shirt when I preach. The recording Continue reading
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Preaching Mistake #397
Tomorrow will be my sixteenth straight Sunday preaching. This will be the first and hopefully last time I’m doing this. Trust me, there’s nothing heroic about going four months straight in the pulpit (not that we actually have a pulpit, but you know what I mean). I’ve gotten myself worn down, and in the process Continue reading
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Sermonizing for January ’08
The cold that’s going around finally caught up with me yesterday, so I spent most of the day working at home. At least it gave me a chance to catch up with some planning. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on the preaching schedule for 2008. As it stands now, the first Continue reading
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Preaching That Makes You Wanna Dance
Our Australian friend Tom has put together a pretty cool little audio clip you can listen to here. Be sure to check out his blog at http://runnoft.blogspot.com/ That’d be pretty cool to have music in the background when I preach! Continue reading
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Getting Ahead in Preaching
As much as I feel in my groove when I’m preaching, I’ve discovered a serious difficulty that comes with preaching every week: I always feel like I’m preaching a first draft! A sermon is something that really has to be developed, to be worked over, and it’s hard to do week after week. When I Continue reading
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Podcast Fixed
Until about a week ago, I didn’t realize that our church podcast only played in one speaker. When I listened to it on my computer, it came out of both speakers. But I had inadvertently been uploading them with the sound only coming out of the left speaker. Anyway, my brilliant wife figured out how Continue reading
Surfing the Inner N8 