Continuing ten ways to disturb the comfortable with your preaching: 6. Don’t make it clear when you are starting a rhetorical question. If the question slips in and people miss it, they then land in the pause as uncomfortable outsiders, unclear what it is they are supposed to be responding to. Be sure to verbally, [...]
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10 Ways to Make Your Listeners Uncomfortable – cont.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Height of Application – 2
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Uncategorized on May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On Friday I wrote about raising the bar without just cranking up the pressure. But any talk of application must also bring us back to take a prayerful look at ourselves. I read a comment in Michael Quicke’s 360-Degree Leadership, a quote from someone, R T Warner, I think. It said that the early church [...]
Christmas Break
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No posts for a few days. Enjoy your Christmas and please check back soon!
Evening Seminar – Chicago Area
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick post to say that we are planning to visit the Chicago area in the first half of May, 2010. If you’d be interested, I’d be happy to offer an evening seminar on some aspect of preaching, or a full Biblical Preaching Seminar, in your church. If you are in the Chicago area [...]
FYI: Comments Delayed
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick FYI – any comments submitted to the site during the second half of March will not be approved and appear until the end of the month. I’ll be unable to access the internet for about two weeks, hence the delay. I’ve pre-loaded posts to keep appearing, so please keep visiting and please [...]
Bay Area Preaching Seminar
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday February 28th, I’ll be running an all day Biblical Preaching Seminar in Lafayette. The hosts have set a registration fee of $20. If you are interested in attending, please let me know and I’ll pass on the organizer’s contact info.
Pre-Review: Preach the Word, edited by Leland Ryken and Todd Wilson
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Review, Uncategorized, tagged Preach the Word, Leland Ryken, Kent Hughes on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Subtitle: Essays on Expository Preaching in Honor of R. Kent Hughes This recent volume from Crossway just landed on my doorstep. I have not read it, hence this is a “pre-review.” However, since I’ve not added a review for a while, and since Christmas is fast approaching, I thought I’d highlight this book’s existence just [...]
The Interviewed Blogger
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, Preaching, Religion, Uncategorized, tagged Exiled Preacher, Peter Mead Interview on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m interrupting the series on The Discouraged Preacher for a day, but will continue it tomorrow. I was just interviewed by Guy Davies at The Exiled Preacher. Since it took more than the 10 or 15 minutes I like to spend on a post, I think it can count as a day’s blogging! Here’s the [...]
Near Dunstable? A Date For Your Diary!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday the 11th of October, I will be speaking at a conference/workshop in Dunstable. If you are not too far from there, it would be great to see you! If you’ve never heard of Dunstable, you probably live too far away! Understanding the Bible Workshop will be held at Langdale Church from 9:30-15:30. This [...]
Stage 2 – Passage Study
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a series overviewing the 8-stage process of developing a sermon. Remember that for all related posts, you can click on the “Stage 2 – Passage Study” button in the menu to the right. Stage 2 – Passage Study Once you have selected your passage or passages for the message, the next task is [...]
Syndication Feeds
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve changed the setting on the site to provide full text feeds for those who would like to use Google Reader or similar tools.
BBB Seminar for Preachers in SE England
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those preachers who live in south east England / Greater London area, please read on. If this does not apply to you, then I hope I will be able to offer this seminar closer to you in the future. You will notice that I have added a page entitled “Seminar.” I will be running [...]
What if I have a question, or idea for this blog?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2007 | 8 Comments »
The way this blog is set up, only Mike and Peter are able to publish new posts. However, if you would like to add something to the site that is not a comment on a previous post, all is not lost! If you have a question, or a text you are wrestling with in preparation [...]
Welcome to the blog
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is a simple concept – a blog for discussing anything related to preaching. We hope to generate discussion of how to preach specific Biblical passages, aspects of delivery, preaching theory and also book reviews. The goal is to stimulate better Biblical preaching. Let’s see where this goes . . .





