Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.25.10 in Preaching
In an article called Keeping It Interesting As A Young Preacher, Phillip Jensen notes that experienced preachers are often asked by younger colleagues for their advice about preaching. It happens to me on a fairly regular basis. Young preachers want to know how long it takes me to prepare a sermon, what process I follow, how I come up with my outli…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.20.10 in Church Trends, Preaching, Sermons, Video
Though the vast majority of Americans identify with the Christian faith, we are becoming more like the Hindus who believe there are many paths to God.
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.4.10 in Preaching, Sermons, Video
After months of work our new video page has just gone live. At the same time our homepage has been redesigned to emphasize our new video content. If you check out the video page, you’ll see that we have video of sermons, interviews, answers to questions on our FAQs page, a video called “The Heartbeat of Keep Believing Ministries,”…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.28.10 in Church Trends, Preaching
A few days ago I received a note from a young pastor whose congregation has been waiting many years to begin a building program. Now at long last the day is fast approaching when they break ground on their first building. They will break ground in just a few weeks. The pastor wanted to know what he should preach on to build enthusiasm as the happy …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.27.10 in Preaching
As a follow-up to my message on What I’ve Learned About Preaching, I decided to rummage through my library to find the most helpful books I own regarding preaching. Over the years I’ve read quite a few books on the topic, though not nearly enough to make me any sort of specialist. My standard of evaluation for books on preaching is…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.7.10 in Devotional, Keep Believing Ministries, Podcasts, Preaching, Questions, Sermons
We have a new podcast about a question posed by religious leaders who wanted to trick Christ. This topic that matters just as much today as it did 2,000 years ago when Christ was asked about it: Can we believe in life after death?
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.16.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 26, “Unconscious Decay."A man growing better does not measure the stages of his progress, nor does a man becoming worse realize the headway of his descent. Men who live nearest to the heart of God do not prate of their visions nor boast of the light in t…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.15.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 25, “Eagles, Race-horses and Plodders.”The high art of walking is one which the minister must master. He must have a genius for plodding. The clergyman who is able to trudge bravely through the years, filling the months with quiet honest work, pressing h…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.14.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 24, “Near to Men Near to God.” A man may be a pagan alone, he cannot be a Christian. A preacher of Christianity must live as close as possible to men. Isolation to him is fatal. If he has a disposition which shrinks from the society of others his disposit…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.13.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 23, “Books and Reading."There are preachers who would be stronger in their ministry if they read fewer books.Books are numerous and cheap and no other working man in the town has so many hours in a wee which can be given to reading as the minister. A par…
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