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I love to preach! After all these years I still love to preach! Do you? Now, I must admit I don't always enjoy the preparation to preach--but the preaching moment is awesome. I still feel the butterflies before I begin to preach, I still have that bit of preacher nervousness, and I am still praying like mad, "Lord, if you don't show up in this sermon....?" If you have lost the joy and love of

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Abraham Lincoln quote, "You can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time."That's the kind of wisdom every preacher needs to remember. I don't care how well you preach or how long you have worked on your sermon, you will not please everyone. I remember a sermon by Dr. Tony Evans, Pastor of Oakcliff Bible

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This may seem like a shock that I would write this: "Preachers need to pray." Many years ago, one of the preachers that I highly respect and admire, who I will not name, shared with me that they did not have much of a prayer life. They were not bragging or boasting, but very soberly and reflectively shared that they did not have much of a prayer life. When I heard this, my heart sank. It was like

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The answer to "What is the purpose of preaching?" might seem obvious. We preachers spend hours in study and preparation to have a sermon to preach. If someone were to observe us from start to finish, it might look like that our goal is to prepare the perfect sermon. Not being a heretic, but the end result of our preaching is NOT a Perfect Sermon! I remember that I had fallen into the track of

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Yes, we preachers need to listen! We spend so much time talking, speaking, and preaching, we need to be reminded that we also need to listen. We need to listen to God. How do we do that? We listen to God through prayer. If you think about the earthly ministry of Jesus, we find Jesus constantly in prayer. Even the disciples implore the church about needing time to pray as they study the Word. You

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I remember talking to a fellow preacher and was surprised that he said that he didn't read any books. If it's one thing I've learned from my journey, it's that I will always be a student, and students have to read. And our reading is not limited to the Bible. We never stop learning! I strongly recommend reading one or two good books on preaching each year. Yes, there can be some or much overlap,

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