Soul Preaching Podcast

Audio 34 - Raliegh Jones Jr from The Black Preaching Network

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — 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 resource. Add your name to the list of preachers using this service at this link

I had a discussion with him a few months ago that you can find below.

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Audio 33 - The Wellspring of Life -Zachary Mills

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — 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.

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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 death. When used with care, the voice can birth wonderful blessings into the world. When used carelessly, the voice can destroy blessings.

My book, The Wellspring of LIFE, is my reflection of the life-changing power of the voice as I have experienced it as a journalist, preacher and divinity school student. I have included both personal testimonies and the stories of friends and strangers to help me show that the voice truly does have the power of life (and death). I have also used my training as a journalist and homiletician (one who studies and teaches preaching) to produce fictional stories and portions of actual sermons that help testify to the power of the voice. Thus, in this book I intend to offer the reader an opportunity for a more devotional experience with God. Said another way, I intend to give readers an opportunity to enter into conversation with God about what God might be saying about the power of the voice.

The intent of this book is not to promise you instant success, wealth, fame, or social or political power. I do not want to suggest that experiencing “peace” or “joy” or “happiness” means accumulating money, houses, cars or other material things. The purpose of this book is to inspire you to begin using the Bible (as well as your personal life experience) as a tool to critically examine the power of your voice and to teach you to evaluate how you are using your voice. I do not claim to have all the answers. I am merely a cracked, clay vessel who tried to say something in this book that would either help you or encourage you to think about life differently and anew.

It is my hope that a critical examination of the voice’s power, and an honest evaluation of how we’re wielding this power, will help us discover how we might be preventing good things in our own lives and in the lives of others because of negative speech or thought patterns. Once we learn how we might be abusing the power of our voices we can begin to practically apply the principles we’ve discovered in the Bible, and in our personal lives, to our daily speech and thought patterns so that we can use our voices as God intends for us to use them—in ways that impart life—and not death—into the world.

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Audio 32 - Two Preachers

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — 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.

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Audio 31 - An Old West Theology

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — 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.

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

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — 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.

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Audio 29 - The Easy Sermon Resolution

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — 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.

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Audio 28 - Preaching Without Notes not a Brain Dump

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:23:16 +0000

Preaching without notes is not a brain dump. What are four principles that we should keep in mind when we preach without notes.

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Audio 27 - The Sermons of the Black Church

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:38:22 +0000

What are the sermons that are preached in the Black church? In this audio we discuss three of the types of sermons that are operative in the Black church.

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Audio 26 - What Do You Need in Your Sermon?

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:57:49 +0000

What are five things you need in a sermon? Poor sermons break one of these important components of sermon construction and presentation.

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Audio 25 - Whooping with Integrity

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:53:36 +0000

I was listening to a preacher who tried to use a "whoop" to hide his lack of preparation. In this audio I give a few principles for whooping with integrity. If a preacher follows these principles he or she will be on the way to not just whoop, but whoop with integrity.

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Audio 24- Prostituting the Black Preaching Tradition

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:58:50 +0000

Don't be fooled by the truncated gospel of those who would prostitute the Black Preaching Tradition. In this commentary, Pastor Cox discusses the importance of preaching the full message if one is to preach in the Black tradition.

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Audio 23 - Five Techniques to Generate Sermon Ideas

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:35:13 +0000

You need an idea for your sermon. You are not sure where to start. You are in the midst of "Preacher's Block." Here Pastor Cox gives 5 techniques to use to generate sermon ideas.

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Audio 22 - Preaching by Playing Words Like Notes

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:55:05 +0000

Can we learn anything about preaching from musicians? Is there any correspondence between playing notes and saying words? In this audio we seek to answer this important question by encouraging preaching to play words like notes.

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Audio 21 - Remembering and Black Preaching

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:23:28 +0000

How can we preach today? What do the ancestors and our current pastor/preachers have to tell us? In this audio we look at the importance of "remembering" three types of preachers from our past.

If we are to preach in these days we must remember our preaching mothers and fathers.

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Audio 20 - Weary Throats and New Songs

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:45:20 +0000

A discussion of Teresa Fry Brown's book. What can we learn from our preaching sistas?

In addition, how can the ministry of music as a metaphor help our preaching? These questions guide the book Weary Throats and New Songs.

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Audio 19 - To Whoop or Not

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:31:47 +0000

Should Black Preachers whoop? Does whooping degrade our sermons? Is it an unnecessary detraction? This audio looks at these and other questions in reference to whooping.

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Audio 18 - Increasing Intensity in the Black Sermon

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:23:55 +0000

How do you increase the intensity of your sermons? Preachers often do this by increasing volume, but that can cause difficulties. Find other ways to bring power to your preaching in this audio.

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Audio 17 Components of an Effective Preaching Service

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:43:29 +0000

What can worship leaders do to provide an effective preaching service? In this audio we will discuss a few things that preachers can do to ensure that the worship services they are a part of are effective vehicles for the proclamation of the Gospel.

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Audio 16 - Sermon: When God Sends You To Hell

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:36:17 +0000

What has God provided to us to allow us to make it through the wilderness? Pastor Cox provides the Biblical answer for how we can make it through any Hell that God sends us to.

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Audio #15 - Three Points and a Poem Sermonic Form

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:15:01 +0000

What is the Three Points and a Poem Sermonic form? How can I use it in my preaching? Pastor Cox describes a method for doing just that in this Audio post.

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Audio #14 - Telling the Story - Preaching with Stories

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:57:54 +0000

Learn to preach with stories. Pastor Cox describes a method for preaching stories in this Audio post.

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Audio Episode #13 - Sermon: Buy Your Field

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:46:34 +0000

God's Word Comes to You.

It Doesn't Make Sense.

What do you do when God tells you to do something that seems nonsensical?

In this sermon Pastor Cox finds in the book of Jeremiah the answer which is, Buy Your Field!

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Audio Podcast 12 - You Can Preach: Exegeting the Text

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:51:41 +0000

How do you exegete a text for preaching? In this episode we look at the steps. This is Step 2: Exegeting the text which is the second in a series of podcasts that are essentially the audio book of You Can Preach: 7 steps to an effective sermon. I would encourage you to listen to the audio here and download the ebook if you have not done it yet. You Can Download it here

Audio Podcast #11 - Bible Study - Why Consider Christ?

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:37:07 +0000

You Can Download the Audio here. This is Bible Study that asks the question, "Why Consider Christ?"

Audio Podcast #10 - Wake Up, Throw Off, and Put On

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:27:26 +0000

You Can Download the Sermon here. This is a Sermon based on Romans 13:11-14. We have been asleep too long. It is time to get up. God has called us to get up because we got things to do. Wake up, Throw off that stuff that has been holding you back, and Put on Jesus Christ so you will be ready for the battle.

Audio Podcast 9 - You Can Preach: Choosing a Text

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:24:04 +0000

How do you find a text to preach? In this episode we discuss a few possibilities. This is Step 1: Choosing a Text which is the first in a series of podcasts that are essentially the audio book of You Can Preach: 7 steps to an effective sermon. I would encourage you to listen to the audio here and download the ebook if you have not done it yet. You Can Download it here

Audio Podcast #8 - Power of the Word

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:16:55 +0000

You can Download the MP3 Here Here is a Bible study entitled The Power of the Word

Audio Podcast 7 - Soul Theology

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:04:37 +0000

In this episode we have a discussion of the principles of African American folk Theology as discussed in the book Soul Theology by Nicolas Cooper Lewter and Henry Mitchell.

We often speak of Black Theology and it is often looking at the works of such theologians as Dwight Hopkins or James cone, but here is a look at the theology of the people in the pew.

Black Preachers need to have a good grasp of Black Folk Theology, this book provides that and this audio summarizes the Black Folk Theological System presented in the book. Download it here

Podcast Episode #6 - Creation and Redemption

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:46:13 +0000

Podcast Episode #6 is our first audio Bible Study entitled Creation and Redemption. God is using all of the power that was used in creation for our redemption. Listen to this podcast to learn why we need a redeemer who is a creator. Audio Bible Study - Creation and Redemption Download it here

Audio Podcast #5 - Take Your Pen and Write it Down

shcox2@soulpreaching.com (Sherman Haywood Cox II) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:26:11 +0000

You Can Download the Sermon here. This is a Sermon based on Isaiah 25:6-10. What do you do when you only have a memory of a past experience with God and a future promise, but nothing for right now? Take your Pen and Write it Down!! Here is a selection from it:

So just like the writer of 3rd Isaiah, keep on looking for that forgotten promise. And if you can’t find such a promise you might need some help from the Psalmist who said, “Even if I make my bed in hell, behold thou art there.” Take your pen, write that down! If you need a little more go listen to the African American slave who sang, “Great Day, Great Day the righteous marching, Great Day, God’s gonna build up Zion’s walls.” Take your pen, Write that down! Don’t worry if you need some more help for Jesus said “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Take your pen and write that down!