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Ten Disciplines of a Godly Pastor

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  • R. Kent Hughes

How do you cultivate godliness as a pastor? This article explains ten disciplines of a godly pastor.

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Stop Worshipping Worship

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  • Landon Reynolds

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.

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Seven Ways to Choose the Best Songs for Worship

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  • Jason Soroski

How do you choose songs for a worship service? This article suggests seven ways.

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Seven Habits of a Healthy Church

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  • Casey Hough

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.

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How to Measure Your Ministry by Biblical Standards

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  • Whitney Hopler

How do you build a biblical church ministry? There are five essential things you need to do to, according to this article.

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You Do? I Do! Preaching for Weddings

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  • David N. Mosser

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.

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Preparing the Preacher

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  • Robert C. Pitman

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.

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Jesus Came Preaching About the Kingdom

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  • Ken Hemphill

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.

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Seven Ways to Grab a Listener’s Attention: Designing More Effective Sermon Introductions

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  • Steve Larsen

A sermon introduction is important for grabbing the attention of the listeners. This article offers seven different ways to design sermon introductions.

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Preaching: An Affair of the Heart

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  • Leslie Holmes

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.

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Ruthless Grace!

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  • Leslie Holmes

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.

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A Preaching Check-up: Three Strategies to Check and Improve Your Preaching

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  • Keith Willhite

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.

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Imagine That!

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  • Allen R. Bean

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.

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The Lost Art of Preaching with Conviction

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  • J. Grant Swank, Jr

Why is preaching with conviction at the heart of effective preaching? Because such preaching is penetrating, persuasive, and personal.

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Preaching to Meet Crisis Needs (Part 5)

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  • Wayne E. Oates

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.

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Preaching and Grief (Fourth in a Five-Part Series)

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  • Wayne E. Oates

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.

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Preaching to Emotional Needs (Preaching and Pastoral Care–Part Three of Five)

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  • Wayne E. Oates

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.

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Apathy in the Pew: Preaching to the Uninvolved (Part Two)

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  • Don M. Aycock

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.

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Peace: Fully Equipped Christians – Hebrews 13:20-21

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  • Walter C. Kaiser Jr

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.

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The Crisis in Expository Preaching Today

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  • Walter C. Kaiser Jr

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.

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