Preaching for the Long Haul

How should you introduce a sermon? Reading the text? Telling a story? Reading a headline? Join Jake and Saolomon as they have a conversations about sermon introducitons

What is tension? How it related to preaching? How can preachers retain the attention of their listeners? Join Jake and Saolomon as they explore tension and the sermon

There are many perspectives on how we should preach on controversial issues as we come across them in our texts. How can we be most faithful as we attempt to do this? Join Jake and Saolomon in their discussion.

What is the culture of a church and how can preaching help to shape that culture? Join Jake and Saolomon in their discussion.

What should preachers bring with them into the pulpit? Some bring full manuscripts while others bring nothing but their Bible, and everything in-between? Is it just dependent on personality or gifting? Or are there actual benefits and cons to each? Join Jake and Saolomon as they discuss their journey and the advice they've received in their preaching.

What is the best way to preach? What is the best way to do student ministry? What is the best way to teach IN student ministry? Should you preach? Oftentimes the worlds of those who talk about expository preaching and those who talk about student ministry are worlds apart. Join Jake and Saolomon in their conversation with Dr. John Gardner who has made a strong attempt to bridge that gap to do solid exposition as a youth pastor.

There's always been this tension of whether or not formal education is actually helpful in preparing someone for the practical on the ground stuff. This is true in trades, business, and in ministry! So today you can join Jake and Saolomon as they dialogue with a pastor/professor on whether or not the academy can truly prepare someone to preach in the local church.

"There is only one correct interpretation of a text" is a commonly understood amongst Christians when interpreting the Bible. If this is true, how can preachers give messages on the same text that sound so different? Does anything go in preaching? Can you just latch onto anything that sticks out to you from a passage? Join this conversation with Jake and Saolomon as they discuss with their friend and coworker, Brody Young.

Sermons on James 5:13-20:

Jake's- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbRyl1WoHA

Saolomon's- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikeg9E7Lgx4

Brody's- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJSlkXclI8 

How should theological and doctrinal ideas be taught in preaching? Can you teach the Bible without teaching doctrine? Is all preaching doctrinal? Join Jake and Saolomon as they have a conversation exploring this issue.

Join Jake and Saolomon as they talk through a sermon from the Prince of Preachers himself, Charles H. Spurgeon. What makes him so compelling? What can we learn? How is he doing his exegesis in his preaching? Can we and should we preach like him? 

Article: Spurgeon's Greatest Sermon- https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/blog-entries/spurgeons-greatest-sermon/ 

"Compel Them to Come in"- https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/compel-them-to-come-in/#flipbook/