preaching improvement

How to make your learning "stick": Ensuring your professional development isn't wasted

How to make your learning "stick": Ensuring your professional development isn't wasted

What have you done to improve your preaching?

If you’re like most of us, you have:

  • bought books
  • read some of them
  • discovered a couple tips you incorporated in your next sermon

Mostly, though, you got fired up about preaching your next few sermons, and then the books started to gather dust.

3 Steps to Make Your Continuing Ed "Stick" (Like This Certificate in Technology in Ministry)

3 Steps to Make Your Continuing Ed "Stick" (Like This Certificate in Technology in Ministry)

How come we learn great stuff but it doesn’t affect our preaching long-term? After the initial boost of energy wears off, we’re right back to our old ways. Getting learning to stick requires a plan. Master this three-step process to ensure your next investment in professional development produces the improvement you seek.

Breathe: An Easter Prayer & Survival Guide for Preachers

Breathe: An Easter Prayer & Survival Guide for Preachers

Ask the Spirit what one thing you are to do right now.

  • If it's to work on your sermon, work on your sermon and your sermon alone.
  • If it's to proofread bulletins, then focus on each line, each word, each number, one...at...a...time.
  • If it's to stand in the pulpit and preach, then preach with your whole being.

Do the one thing you are to do. And find the peace of Christ waiting for you therein.