The key to delivering actionable sermons is to provide practical application for personal transformation in your faith community. This is done by having an understanding of your culture, asking practical questions, and having a single call to action.
To see healthy church growth in your faith community you need to incorporate the use of expository preaching. This will allow you to preach the scriptures in a way that conveys the original author's meaning as God intended them to be heard. When the scriptures are read with their original meaning, life change happens and the Holy Spirit moves in supernatural ways.
We all love the story of Noah and the Ark. We are familiar with the story of David and Goliath. We understand the idea behind the Creation story. We know there was a story about someone in a lion's den. And didn't someone get saved from a furnace...or fire...or something like that? Many Americans are … Continue reading How to Overcome Biblical Illiteracy
Conflict theory argues that social behavior can best be understood in terms of the tension and conflict that arises between individuals and groups in pursuit of their individual ideologies and agendas (Vago, 2003). Many times these conflicts revolve around scarce commodities, and the pursuit is change rather than order, and social change is the process … Continue reading Mankind is Made for Conflict
In his 1978 song Everything Must Change, Benard Ighnar takes a look at change with a longing sadness as "the young become old and mysteries do unfold". For those of us who are in ministry leadership, it is easy for us to lament the challenges we face when trying to motivate church attenders to embrace … Continue reading Change for God’s Sake
The world of ministry leadership can be rather confusing. There is a constant tension between utilizing charisma and battling egotism that many ministry leaders lose. Over the last thirty years, there has been a long list of reported ministry leaders allowing their charisma to cross over to egotism which has led to some very destructive … Continue reading Egotism of Ministry Leaders
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