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		<title>Evaluating Your Sermons</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[On our Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/soulpreaching), which I encourage you to like so that you can get involved in some of these discussions, one of our readers, Prescott Jay Erwin, gave the following as a rubric for evaluating his own sermons. He said, I gauge my sermons based on: 1) whether or not I believe them [...]
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		<title>Connect the Point to Human Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The sermon is not a Biblical lecture designed merely to inform the hearer of some interesting facts. It is not merely a place where you can learn different stories from the Bible. Certainly it includes that, but no it is more than that. The sermon is a vehicle for an encounter with the Most High [...]
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		<title>I’m Gonna Take My Cross To Glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I gotta home in the Kingdom Ain&#8217;t that Good News? I gotta home in that Kingdom Ain&#8217;t that Good News? Gonna Lay Down This World Shoulder Up My Cross Take It Home To My Jesus Ain&#8217;t that Good News The slave singer recognizes that there is a home in glory. That home is good news [...]
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		<title>Do You Preach The Theme or God’s Word?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Someone sent in the following question that I thought might be of interest to the community as a whole: What are your thoughts on Preaching on Theme topics ( Pastor Anniversary, Church Anniversary, Women’s Day, Men&#8217;s Day, Youth Day etc.). Should I try to build a message off of the topic and/or scripture they have [...]
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		<title>Has The Formed Weapon Prospered Against You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Bible says in Isaiah 54:17 &#8220;No weapon that is formed against you will prosper.&#8221; Many preachers, gospel singers and Bible teachers have emphasized this text to us. We all know about the enemies that assail us. So we sing this in our songs. We rejoice at what seems to be a guarantee that weapons [...]
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		<title>Running From The Ministry But Still Preaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Folks will sometimes say that a young man or woman who obviously has gifts in ministry is running from the ministry when she or he does not want any part of the ministry. God has called them and instead of walking in that ministry, they want to do something else. That is a definition of [...]
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		<title>Strange Sermon Titles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[At this link you will find a bunch of sermon titles connected to the scripture.  Some are not bad, some are terrible, some are bizarre.  I find that looking at sermon titles can help to rejuvinate the creative juices.  It might help you, but be careful, some are absolutely terrible, for example:


PIMPOLOGY - Purpose In My Pain - 2 Corinthians 11:23-30
I'm So Sick of Frogs I Could Croak! - Exodus...<br/>
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		<title>Improving Your Craft….How Pious Ideas Can Kill Preaching Improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[We get emails and comments all the time from readers. I love to receive them and try to answer them if I can. Many are happy with the &#8220;down to earth&#8221; and &#8220;practical&#8221; insights that I attempt to present in simple language. I try to steer clear of canned and trite teaching that people think [...]
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		<title>Asides And a Confusing Sermon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the greatest temptations of preachers is the unrelated point. It seems that preachers often want to add in asides while preaching their sermons. You know when preachers are on a topic and something immediately comes to mind. Instead of evaluating whether the point is relevant to the topic at hand, the preacher simply [...]
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		<title>Preaching With Your Senses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Preachers determine the meaning of scripture so that they can convey that meaning to the congregation in the preaching moment. Preachers go to considerable lengths to make sure that they preach the truth and not error. They study the passage within the context of the chapter, book, and even the whole cannon of scripture. In [...]
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		<title>Looking at the “Insignificant” Parts of the Text</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Preachers are expected to "tell the story" in the African American tradition.  Often this is a call to preach the familiar stories that we all have heard multiple times.  Preaching familiar stories helps both the preacher and the people.  The people know the story that you are seeking to interpret and the preacher does not have to go looking in obscure sections of the Bible for something to...<br/>
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		<title>My God, My God, Why….?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[On the cross Jesus uttered a fascinating sentence. We find it in Matthew 27:45-46, Jesus said &#8220;My God, My God, Why has thou forsaken me?&#8221; If you have been in the church for even a short time you have heard this quoted. Perhaps you have even heard sermons on the subject, but have you thought [...]
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		<title>Audio 48 – Allowing The Parables To Really Speak</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherman Haywood Cox II</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Parables have power, but how do you preach them? Do you preach them as a monument to the status quo? Do you preach them after a few minutes of analysis? Do you preach them simply to illustrate pretty tame points in your sermons? Or do you let them attack us in our deep beliefs [...]
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