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The Kingdom is not Good News for Everyone

shermancox — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:02:49 +0000

James Harris, in Preaching Liberation writes: Jesus didn't come after John Inquiring about a consensus of beliefs or taking an opinion poll in order to tell folk what they wanted to hear or reinforce what they had already heard. No! Jesus didn't come "shucking and jiving," not even praying and singing...He came with a message--a message from God and the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came...

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Frederick D. Haynes III

shermancox — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:31:14 +0000

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Audio 34 - Raliegh Jones Jr from The Black Preaching Network

shermancox — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:59 +0000

Pastor Raleigh Jones discusses the origin and the continued work and progress of the Black Preaching Network. the Black Preaching Network is a social networking site that allows preachers to meet, greet, and interact on the internet. The site now has over 10,000 members and is growing daily. You can join now for fee, and I would encourage all preachers to take advantage of this marvelous...

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Is Your Sermon a Balm or Band-Aid?

shermancox — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:20:26 +0000

Salve is applied to a wound. It covers the wound like a band aid, but it does much more. Certainly it is important to cover the wound. It is important to block things from getting into the wound. Yes that is important, but a healing balm doesn't just stop there. Balm Goes Into the Wound A healing balm actually goes into the wound. It attempts healing not from the safety of an outsider...

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Marcus Cosby

shermancox — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:25:44 +0000

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Don't Just Preach to Yourself

shermancox — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:29:43 +0000

Preachers must know themselves, if they are going to be effective preachers of the Gospel. Why is this? The reason is that many preachers can fall into the trap of preaching only to themselves rather than preaching to the people. What am I talking about? I am talking about preachers who spend too much time talking about their problems preaching only to things they need to overcome or attacking...

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Audio 33 - The Wellspring of Life -Zachary Mills

shermancox — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:44:11 +0000

The power of life and death is in the tongue. Listen to Pastor Cox discuss Zachary Mill's book on the importance of words for all Christians including preachers. Download the audio at this link. The Author Discusses the Book Below My experience as a Christian preacher has convinced me that there is extraordinary power in the voice. Indeed, the voice has the power of both life and...

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Dr. Frank Ray

shermancox — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:43:42 +0000

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Logos Bible Software and the Four Waves of Exegesis - Web Seminar

shermancox — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:36:10 +0000

Our Third Web Seminar is on the features of Logos Bible Software that we can use to help us in the "Four Waves" methodology of exegesis. We step through the tool with that thought in mind.

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Audio 32 - Two Preachers

shermancox — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:51:28 +0000

Which of these two preachers are you? Are you the one who continues to get better or the slothful one? Listen to this Audio where Sherman Haywood Cox II discusses this subject. Download the audio at this link.

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Audio 31 - An Old West Theology

shermancox — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:56:57 +0000

Are you Preaching an old west mythology or are you preaching in the real world? Listen to this Audio where Sherman Haywood Cox II discusses this important question. Download the audio at this link.

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Entertainment and Worship

shermancox — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:53:27 +0000

Marva Dawn, in her work A Royal Waste of Time writes: If television is causing people to be dissatisfied with the worship of our churches, should we change worship to be more like television -- or should the splendor of our worship cause people to ask better questions about television? Here is a fundamental question that should affect our worship and our preaching. Are we seeking to...

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Sermons as Medicine

shermancox — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:19:02 +0000

Paul Scott Wilson, on page 22 of the first edition of the book The Practice of Preaching quotes Phillip Brooks at length in writing: Much of our preaching is like delivering lectures upon medicine to sick people. The lecture is true. The lecture is interesting. Nay, the truth of the lecture is important, and if the sick man could lean the truth of the lecture he would be a better patient, he...

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Looking at the "Insignificant" Parts of the Text

shermancox — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:45:36 +0000

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...

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The Necessity of Getting With the People in the Sermon

shermancox — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:24:59 +0000

The preachers who preach truly great messages often come into the lives of the people. Listen to the preachers who really touch their congregations. Listen to the illustrations used. They are illustrations from regular life. They are illustrations that we all can understand. They are stories about chasing the bus that just left or driving when the gas gage says empty. They are stories...

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Preaching Matters

shermancox — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:08:53 +0000

Charles E. Booth wrote: "Therefore, the serious revivalist should always seek to preach as as if life or death hangs in the balance." He was writing specifically about the revivalist, but it can actually refer to any preacher's sermon. I was reading another website where a preacher referred to preaching as "mere preaching." He was speaking of the preacher's need to do more than simply...

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G. E. Patterson

shermancox — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:38:40 +0000

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The Pulpit is no Place for Busywork - Say Something!

shermancox — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:32:35 +0000

You ever been on a job where looking busy was more important than actually accomplishing anything? Many of us at times have succumbed to the temptation to simply look like we were doing something rather than actually doing something. Those of us in the internet world know about spending time on facebook or checking our email versus actually writing the next article and/or recording the next...

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Audio 30 - Finding the Perfect Sermon Illustration from Your Own Experience

shermancox — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:34:24 +0000

How do you find the perfect sermon illustration? Pastor Sherman Haywood Cox II answers this question in this short audio presentation. Download the audio at this link.

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Audio 29 - The Easy Sermon Resolution

shermancox — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:25:15 +0000

The easy sermon resolution. Do your sermons take seriously the reality of pain? Sherman Haywood Cox II talks about this in this audio post. Download the audio at this link.

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Pathetic or Transformative Relevance

shermancox — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:28:00 +0000

James Forbes, in his very helpful work The Holy Spirit and Preaching writes: "Preaching under the anointing of the Spirit deeply touches the hearer, evoking either acceptance or rejection of the gospel." Sometimes We Motivate Rather than Preach Sometimes our desire to be understood, or to be accepted will cause us to preach a message that states that which rational minds could come to if they...

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Dr. Maurice Watson

shermancox — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:55:32 +0000

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Slow Down and Listen to Preach Effective Sermons

shermancox — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:15:54 +0000

Kirk Byron Jones, in his book Jazz of Preaching writes: "Slow down and listen in life, in sermons preparation, and in the pulpit." The quote reminds me of my introduction to homiletics professor, Brad Braxton, who had his students to get up and walk around Vanderbilt's campus. We would come back in 20-30 minutes. When we all came back, Dr. Braxton simply asked us what did we see? He then...

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Preaching for Transformation

shermancox — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:20:16 +0000

James Harris writes: Those who worship God week after week should not display the same actions and behavior as those who do not. Their perspective and attitude should change, and they should also be able to help to change others. Encountering Almighty God I might add this change and transformation comes from an encounter with Almighty God. In worship and in our preaching, we attempt to...

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Dr. Charles Adams

shermancox — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:29:30 +0000

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God's Grace or Mere Methods?

shermancox — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:12:18 +0000

Willimon, in The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized writes: The challenge of being an evangelistic preacher is the precarious willingness to allow God to use us to assemble the church, which is often a church we would not have assembled if assembling a church were only a matter of methods of church growth rather than a matter of God's grace. Church as Merely Agency Today is an era of...

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Leaving the Gospel's Oddity In the Sermon

shermancox — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00:41 +0000

William Willimon writes in The Intrusive Word: The gospel is more add than we liberal mainliners care to admit, certainly more odd than the conservative fundamentalists admit. Conflict is inevitable when the gospel challenges the power configurations in which we find ourselves. Sparks fly. There is a struggle that is considerably more disruptive than the mere nod of intellectual...

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Jerry Black

shermancox — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:42:32 +0000

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Preaching Both Sides

shermancox — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:15:37 +0000

Olin Moyd, in The Sacred Art: Preaching and Theology in the African American Tradition writes: African American preaching in the present and future, as in the past, has the awesome task of speaking comfort and hope to the exploited while at the same time demanding relief and justice from the exploiters as a divine mandate. The Two Sides Some preachers think they are done after simply...

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Exegeting a Text of Scripture - The Four Waves

shermancox — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:53:28 +0000

Subscribers to the SoulPreacher have already received this article in the 31st edition of the Soul Preacher email magazine. In addition, those who have attended our second web seminars have seen the expansion of this concept. However, everyone else can now learn from this very powerful way of looking at exegesis of the text for preaching. Exegesis can be seen as looking at the Biblical text...

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