A Month By Month Guide To Understanding Your Listener’s Mindsets

by Brian Jones | Jan 17, 2020 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization, Communication / Preaching

All great communicators begin with focusing on their listener’s mindset, not their topic. Senior Pastor’s who are great preachers are no exception to this rule. Below is a guide that our Teaching Team created a few years ago to help us when planning an upcoming sermon...

3 Questions to Ask When Planning a Sermon Series

by Travis Stephens | Nov 29, 2019 | Church Planting, Communication / Preaching

One of the best changes my church ever made was going from preaching stand-alone sermons every Sunday to preaching through sermon series. Sermon series gives you more time to prepare and more opportunities to be creative. They also generate more interest, which means...

5 Steps To Writing Excellent Sermons In 8 Hours Or Less

by Brian Jones | Nov 6, 2019 | Church Leadership, Communication / Preaching

If you’re going to lead your church through the next growth barrier, you can’t squander the most precious personal resource you have: time. This includes wasting time on unfocused sermon preparation. I’ve always been a bit suspicious of how long Senior Pastors spend...

Sermon Prep Issues For New Planters

by Ralph Moore | Sep 24, 2018 | Church Planting, Communication / Preaching

Over the years we’ve launched just under 70 churches from our own. Those congregations have planted others and the number of churches that we know of exceeds 700. They often don’t use our name or join our parent denomination. Right or wrong, we have intentionally...

Two Tips to Improve Your Communication

by Steve Sjogren | Aug 1, 2018 | Church Leadership, Communication / Preaching

There is no area in the life of a pastor-communicator where he or she has a greater lack of self-awareness than this:  How they are doing at giving the weekly message. Every week hundreds of thousands of pastors deliver a message that they are convinced is a...