God Wants to Give You Another Chance (Jonah 3)

Happy Labor Day! The Lord be with you today. This is a late post from this weekend. My site went down Saturday. So you get Labor Day Shout-Outs today. Enjoy! Yesterday, I continued my Ephesians series with a message entitled, "Be Imitators of God" (Ephesians 5:1-6). What does it take to be imitators of God? I. Walk in Love (5:1-2). A. Imitate the Love of God the Father (v. 1) B. Walk in the Love of God the Son (v. 2) II. Say No to Defiling Sins (5:3-4). A. Abstain from immoral behavior (v. 3) B. Abstain from filthy language (v....

God Can Deliver You (Jonah 2)

This is episode #025 of The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, we will talk about asking the right questions of the text. Here are give questions you should ask of the text you are studying:  OBSERVATIONS: What does the text say?  INTERPRETATIONS: What does the text mean? CORRELATION: How does the text relate? APPLICATION: How does the text apply?  REFUTATION: What does the text refute?  QUESTIONS What questions do you ask as you study the word of God?  What other questions would you recommend?  RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Basic Bible...

The following is a guest post by Joe Pace who is the Pastor of Worship & Arts at the Shiloh Church, where I serve as Pastor-Teacher. WHAT’S THE WORD ON WORSHIP? Colossians 3:16 tells us that there is an inextricable link between the preaching/teaching ministry and music ministry in our worship. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” To be even more clear: YOU JUST CAN’T WORSHIP WITHOUT THE WORD!! [Tweet "YOU JUST CAN’T WORSHIP WITHOUT THE WORD!!"]...

God Won’t Take No For An Answer (Jonah 1)

YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR MY EMAIL LIST IN THE RIGHT COLUMN OF THIS PAGE TO RECEIVE A FREE WEEKLY SERMON MANUSCRIPT. A big shout-out to my friend, Adron Robinson, for the opportunity to preach this week at the Hillcrest Baptist Church in Chicago. The Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference is less than only a few weeks away – September 22-24, 2015. This meeting is to train, promote, and model expository preaching. There will also be special tracks for Youth Ministry and Worship & Arts. It should be three enriching days of training, fellowship, and worship. I hope to...

his is episode #024 of The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. In this episode, we talk about the essential key to proper Bible interpretation - Context. Here are 7 areas of context you should consider: The Literary Context The Historical Context The Religious Context The Cultural Context The Political Context The Geographic Context The Theological Context QUESTIONS How do you study context in your sermon preparation? In what way do you factor in these seven elements of biblical context? What tools do you use to study context? RECOMMENDED RESOURCES The Literary...

      The following is a guest post by Cameron Triggs who is the Pastor of Youth & Young Adults of the Shiloh Church, where I serve as Pastor-Teacher. He blogs at camtriggs.com. Preaching Truth To Youth There is little question that many of today’s youth are increasingly disengaged from church, under engaged with the Gospel, and essentially biblically illiterate. The blogs, debates, and statistics about these continue to wage war but the greatest consensus from the ground states we have a real battle on our hands concerning millennials and the upcoming generation. In "You Lost Me" by Dave Kinnaman he...

We are now one month away from the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference. It will meet September 22-24, 2015, at the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville (FL), where I serve as pastor-teacher. The goal of this conference is to train, model, and promote faithful Bible exposition in preaching and teaching. What is expositional preaching? Expositional preaching is essentially preaching in which the point of the sermon is based on and in alignment with the point of the scripture text. Something drives every sermon. Expository preaching is text-driven preaching. The expository sermon explains the meaning of the text and...

A Call to Spiritual Unity (Philippians 2:1-5)

YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR MY EMAIL LIST IN THE RIGHT COLUMN OF THIS PAGE TO RECEIVE A FREE WEEKLY SERMON MANUSCRIPT.  Shout-out to Pastor Pedro S. Williams for the opportunity to preach at the Jericho Baptist Church this week in the Turks and Caicos. Today is exactly one month before the start of the Cutting It Straight Expository Preaching Conference - September 22-24, 2015. This meeting is to train, promote, and model expository preaching. There will also be special tracks for Youth Ministry and Worship & Arts. It should be three enriching days of training, fellowship, and worship. I hope to...