7 Preaching Stories You Can Use in Your Sermons
Here are seven interesting preaching stories to save in your files, along with a quick thought on how you can use them in your sermons. A Texas police officer writes a ticket, but folded a $100 bill inside the citation. Read the story about #grace. God gives us a great gift, even though we are…
Read More12 Ways to Use Social Media to Connect with Your Congregation this Christmas
We’ve put together twelve easy and practical ways for you to engage with people through Facebook and Twitter. These done-for-you activities will help you start faith conversations and build up folks. Pick one or two of them and connect with your congregation this Christ.as Copy and paste the lyrics of your favorite Christmas song on…
Read MoreBuilding a Sermon Feedback Team
In Part 1 of the Leveraging Feedback series, we discussed the fact that feedback is inevitable in the world of preaching and speaking. It comes with the territory. And yet, that doesn’t mean you have to absorb the feedback and give it credibility. In fact, we gave you the permission to ignore feedback. Suggesting that…
Read MoreUsing Things
In college, I was one of the few people at Florida State University to use a DayTimer. My particular DayTimer of choice was the wallet version. It came with a small file-box with twelve monthly calendars. Today, I’ve given up the printed DayTimer and use a digital solution that syncs my task list across all my…
Read MoreGetting Started with Evernote
Evernote, a free software tool, can really change the way organize and save all sorts of things – from saving articles and links for sermon notes to scanning and archiving papers you don’t want to lose. Evernote is a virtual filing cabinet, and combined with a scanner it can dramatically simplify and improve your workflow. …
Read MoreDealing with Email
I’ve read many things about email – from eBooks on dealing with email overload, but four rules or principles have stuck with me. I don’t get these perfect every day, but I do come close to my goal. Principle #1: Handle email one time. In the most recent election, political pundits predicted Ohio would be…
Read MoreGet Deep and Wide when You Sign up for This Free Online Conference
We’re excited about the replay of our Preach Better Sermons online conference next Wednesday, December 5th. We believe this free webcast will be of a big help for your next presentation (and it comes at the perfect time for those of you working on Christmas sermons.) Today, we’re giving away 20 copies of Andy Stanley’s…
Read MoreLeveraging Feedback
This is Part 1 in a series on feedback from Jeff Henderson, the co-founder of Preaching Rocket and the Lead Pastor of Gwinnett Church. If you’re going to be a communicator, feedback is inevitable. It comes with the territory and arrives in all sorts of ways. Sometimes, you get feedback immediately after your presentation. Other…
Read MoreCyber Monday Email to Send to Your Church Database
Here is an email template to send out to your church email database on Cyber Monday. Subject of Email: Our Church is participating in Cyber Monday! Hey…it’s Pastor John. Just wanted to touch base with you on “Cyber Monday!” A lot of people are shopping online today & shopping for gifts & I wanted to…
Read MoreThree Money Mistakes Pastors Make
Here are three money mistakes many pastors make. 1. Not communicating ENOUGH. Stewardship Sunday and the quick mention about online giving in the weekly update are not enough. People in the real world deal with money every day, so this is something you have to talk about on a regular basis. You need a strategy…
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