Preach Better

When you preach, do people fall asleep? Do they look around the sanctuary or constantly look at their phones? Let’s start fixing that problem today.

I’ve taken Spurgeon’s chapter titled Attention! and organized his words around four headings. If you address these four areas of concern, you will go far in your ability to obtain and retain the attention of your hearers.

Recommended Reading:

• Spurgeon's "Lectures to My Students" here: https://amzn.to/2XCaAS7

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Have a blessed day!

Do you struggle with a weak-sounding voice? Here are Spurgeon's 3 Rules for better Public Speaking along with his 7 tips for caring for your voice.

Recommended Reading:

• Spurgeon's Lectures to My Students: https://amzn.to/2XCaAS7 (affiliate links)

Spiritualizing is a method of sermon writing that can produce either good sermons or really, really bad sermons. The difference is found in how careful a preacher is when he attempts to spiritualize a Bible text.

Follow Spurgeon's 4 Guidelines to avoid making yourself look like a fool in the pulpit.

RECOMMENDED READING:

• "Lectures to My Students": https://amzn.to/2XCaAS7

• Spurgeon's book of devotions, "Morning and Evening": https://amzn.to/2ZULkHT

Every craftsman must keep his tools sharp, and every swordsman must whet his blade. The preacher must likewise guard his heart to keep it from the dulling effect of sin, and polish it from the grime of corruption. In today's episode, I discuss how Charles Spurgeon described the importance of a preacher's holiness in the chapter titled "The Minister's Self-Watch."

RECOMMENDED READING:

Charles Spurgeon's Lectures to My Students: https://amzn.to/2XCaAS7

Richard Baxter's The Reformed Pastor: https://amzn.to/3khO8bD Andrew Bonar's biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne: https://amzn.to/3qP9nUg

John Bunyan's A Few Sighs from Hell: https://amzn.to/3sgeMEt

John Owen's The Mortification of Sin: https://amzn.to/37xlUUR

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How do you pick a verse from the Bible to preach on? Where do you start? Charles Spurgeon shows us how in the chapter titled "On the Choice of a Text" in his book Lectures to My Students.

I share five lessons I learned from the chapter titled "Sermons - Their Matter" in Charles Spurgeon's book called Lecture to My Students. These lesson have helped prepare better sermons.

In the book titled Lectures to My Students, Charles Spurgeon gives us 4 lessons regarding the preacher's private prayer life.

What are some of the most common mistakes preachers make when they pray publicly? Charles Spurgeon discusses them (along with other helpful tips) in the chapter titled "Our Public Prayer" from his book Lectures to My Students.

Gleaning lessons from his book Lectures to My Students, I share how Charles Spurgeon answers the very important question about whether a man is called to preach or not. I summarize it by suggesting we ask ourselves three questions: 1. Do I want to preach? 2. Can I preach? 3. Are people helped by my preaching?