By Peter Walters on Sep 8, 2022
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We have a new family in our church with no church background at all. When I prepare to preach I think of them and go the extra mile to make my message as understandable and relatable as possible.
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By Carey Nieuwhof on May 10, 2024
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"I recently surveyed 1400 small and mid-sized church pastors to find out what they struggle with most as their church grows. They overwhelmingly identified developing leaders as their top challenge."
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By Don Ballard on Jul 25, 2024
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How can pastors apply Stephen Covey's principle, 'Begin With the End in Mind', to the area of preaching and teaching the Bible?
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By Peter Mead on Jul 20, 2024
Clear, simple sermon-feedback questions help preachers grow. These six practical prompts reveal clarity, engagement, biblical accuracy, and delivery strengths.
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By Bob Hostetler on Jan 13, 2025
A practical guide outlining 13 common preaching mistakes, with tips to avoid them and deliver sermons that are clear, Christ-centered, and spiritually nourishing.
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By Joe Mckeever on Jul 18, 2022
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When a pastor stands to preach, he never knows who is listening to him. And if his sermon is recorded or broadcast, he has no clue who will be hearing his words. He will do well to make sure he knows what he’s talking about.
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By Josh Reich on Oct 17, 2022
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8 questions to ask as you prepare to preach your next sermon.
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By Lance Witt on Sep 24, 2022
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“Everything worthwhile is uphill. Everything that is valuable, you have to work for. No one ever coasted their way to success. Most people have uphill hopes but have downhill habits.”
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By Lance Witt on Mar 11, 2021
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In my ministry Replenish, I am often asked “how do you know if a church is healthy”? What I know for sure is that the size of a church or it’s rate of growth or what happens on the platform in a weekend worship service is NOT a sure-fire indicator of health.
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By Thomas C. Brown on Jul 11, 2022
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Greater is the value of personal intimacy with God than busyness for him. Service must follow surrender and solitude.
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By Karl Vaters on Aug 31, 2022
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We're often told that small churches are failing at church growth. But sometimes church growth ideas are failing in smaller churches.
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By Brandon Kelley on Oct 31, 2022
"Sermon prep and sermon writing can be hard. Often times, it can even be painful. Anything seems better to be doing when we get stuck in a sermon prep and writing rut. But we all know that the work is worth it. The pain is worth it. The plodding is worth it."
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By Hal Seed on Nov 11, 2022
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I believe every pastor ought to be a prayer warrior.
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By Josh Read on Mar 11, 2026
Grace might be the most preached-on topic in the history of the church and the least understood. Every pastor has a grace sermon in their back pocket. The problem isn't that we preach it too rarely. The problem is that we've filed it under "God is nice to us" and moved on.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer identified this seventy years ago and named it precisely: cheap grace. Grace as doctrine, as principle, as system. Grace without discipleship, grace without the cross. Most congregations have heard enough grace sermons to believe God accepts them. Far fewer have heard one that made them uncomfortable.
This outline is for that second sermon. Not grace as comfort but grace as disruption. The kind that doesn't just forgive what you were but refuses to leave you there.
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