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Practical Tips for Public Speaking - Sermonary
Hello Church! - June 22, 2021 06:00 - 26 minutesHow do you feel about public speaking? As a pastor, you’re probably doing a lot of it — and it’s a learned skill, just like any other. Jack Hester, the teaching pastor at Mars Hill Church in Mobile, Alabama, has been preaching nearly every week for twenty-five years. He’s got some tips for how t...
Our Top 5 Favorite Commentary Sets for Sermon Preparation
Hello Church! - June 15, 2021 06:00 - 12 minutesDo you have a favorite biblical commentary set? We’ve made a list of our top five — and we’re going to share them with you today. Commentaries can provide illuminating context on your selected passage. When you dive into commentaries, you’re accessing a treasure trove of pastoral scholarship tha...
Top 5 Favorite Commentary Sets for Sermon Preparation
Hello Church! - June 15, 2021 06:00 - 12 minutesDo you have a favorite biblical commentary set? We’ve made a list of our top five — and we’re going to share them with you today. Commentaries can provide illuminating context on your selected passage. When you dive into commentaries, you’re accessing a treasure trove of pastoral scholarship tha...
How to Preach Through a Book of the Bible (Bible Book/Expository Sermon Series)
Hello Church! - June 08, 2021 06:00 - 13 minutesWhat’s the best way to preach through a book of the Bible? At Ministry Pass, we have a sermon series on every book of the Bible. For some, we cover every single verse! So if you’re wondering how to keep your messages fresh when you’re preaching on a book of the Bible for weeks (even months!), we...
How to Preach Through a Book of the Bible (Bible Book Sermon Series)
Hello Church! - June 08, 2021 06:00 - 13 minutesWhat’s the best way to preach through a book of the Bible? At Ministry Pass, we have a sermon series on every book of the Bible. For some, we cover every single verse! So if you’re wondering how to keep your messages fresh when you’re preaching on a book of the Bible for weeks (even months!), we...
5 Best Practices When Using Commentaries in Your Sermon Preparation
Hello Church! - June 03, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutesWhen it comes to preaching the Gospel, isn’t the Scripture sufficient? Of course it is — but in reading commentaries, “we enter into a fellowship of pastors across space and time,” says Pastor Kyle Beshears. Commentaries give us a chance to mine the insights of other Biblical scholars so that we...
5 Best Practices When Using Commentaries in Your Sermon Preparation - Sermonary
Hello Church! - June 03, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutesWhen it comes to preaching the Gospel, isn’t the Scripture sufficient? Of course it is — but in reading commentaries, “we enter into a fellowship of pastors across space and time,” says Pastor Kyle Beshears. Commentaries give us a chance to mine the insights of other Biblical scholars so that we...
How to Create a Sermon Series (Best Practices!)
Hello Church! - June 01, 2021 06:00 - 17 minutesDid you know that our team has created over 1200 sermon series? We’ve learned a few things along the way, and we’d like to share our best practices with you. After all, it can feel like a lot of manual effort to develop a sermon series… OR, it can feel like a productive, streamlined process. ...
How Small Churches Can Build a Preaching Team
Hello Church! - May 25, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutesWant to learn how to build a preaching team? You may already understand why a preaching team is a good idea: It allows your congregation to hear from other voices, you can take breaks, and you can also mentor younger pastors. But how exactly do you build this team, especially if you lead a small...
Write and Deliver Effective Sermons with These 3 Targets
Hello Church! - May 18, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutesHow do you get people to really respond to your sermons? And no, I don’t mean in terms of persnickety emails after you preach. I mean seeing people really “get it” because you were able to communicate the Word to them in a powerful way. It’s not necessarily up to us — the Spirit of God is the On...
Write and Deliver Effective Sermons with These 3 Targets - Sermonary
Hello Church! - May 18, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutesHow do you get people to really respond to your sermons? And no, I don’t mean in terms of persnickety emails after you preach. I mean seeing people really “get it” because you were able to communicate the Word to them in a powerful way. It’s not necessarily up to us — the Spirit of God is the On...
How to Plan a Successful Church Staff Retreat
Hello Church! - May 11, 2021 06:00 - 16 minutesWhat’s the recipe for a successful church staff retreat? You can’t underestimate the power of a great staff retreat. A successful event can help everyone step back and see the big picture — you can reflect on where you’ve been and where you’re headed as a church. We have some suggestions to hel...
Sermon Series Ideas for Summer 2021 (11 Ideas!)
Hello Church! - May 04, 2021 06:00 - 20 minutesWhat should you preach in the summer? Since summer is a less structured, lower-attended period for the church year, you may gravitate toward preaching lighter content. But this season also tends to be a ripe time for transition. We have some ideas for how you can stay intentional and use the sum...
Preaching the List of Names in the Bible - Sermonary Podcast
Hello Church! - April 29, 2021 06:00 - 8 minutesEver skipped over a list of names in your selected passage? You bet you have. It’s hard to know how to preach through them and squeeze out practical applications for your audience. But what are we missing when we jump over Old Testament genealogies and the listed names of New Testament disciples...
5 Apps For Church Team Collaboration
Hello Church! - April 27, 2021 06:00 - 16 minutesMisaligned? Miscommunicating? Out of the loop? It’s important for your team to stay in step with each other. Things can unravel pretty quickly when they don’t! But it’s not always easy to find the right solution. Never fear: Today, we’re sharing the apps we use here at Ministry Pass that keep us...
7 Tips For Planting A Church From Church Planters
Hello Church! - April 20, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutesWhat do you need to know before planting a church? Psalm 127:1 says, “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.” When you’re setting out on a church-planting venture, you may be really excited — or really intimidated (or both!). But there are ways for you to participate wisel...
You Need To Know This Before You Plant A Church (7 Things) - Sermonary Podcast with John Stange
Hello Church! - April 15, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesWhat do you need to know before you plant a church? It’s a big leap to go out and plant a church — so how can you make sure you’re pursuing your path prayerfully and wisely? Continuing our conversation with author, pastor, and leadership trainer John Stange, we’re talking about the seven things ...
Ideas for a Special Mother's Day Sunday Service
Hello Church! - April 13, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutesDid you know that Mother’s Day is the third highest attended service of the year? Outside of Christmas and Easter, Mother’s Day brings in the most attendees — because moms want their children to go to church with them! So how can you be intentional about this service? We have some ideas that wil...
Mega Church Secrets that Small Churches Should Know
Hello Church! - April 06, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutesCan your small church benefit from strategies that big churches use? As a small church pastor, you may be critical of the “mega church mentality.” But some larger churches have worked out certain principles at an organizational level that may help your church get to the next season of its struct...
How to Battle Criticism and Negativity as Pastor - Interview with John Stange on Sermonary
Hello Church! - April 01, 2021 06:00 - 22 minutesYou preach the Gospel to others — but do you regularly preach it to yourself? Today we’re interviewing John Stange, whose new book Dwell on These Things releases in May. In addition to being an author, podcaster, mentor, and leadership trainer, John Stange is a church planter who has been a full...
How to Get People to Come Back the Week After Easter
Hello Church! - March 30, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutesHow can you get people to come back to your church after Easter? It can be easy to treat Easter like a destination. You plan a big service, promote it, get people to attend, preach to the crowd… then, PHEW! You take a break afterward, grateful to have pulled it off. But the truth is, Easter is a...
7 Sermon Illustration Ideas You Can Use This Easter
Hello Church! - March 23, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutesNeed some fresh illustrations to use in your Easter sermon? We’ve got them for you — seven, in fact! Using new illustrations can really get your audience’s attention, especially since you’re likely preaching to both in-person and online crowds this year (which is NOT an easy thing to do). We’ve ...
3 Reasons Why Pastors Should Use Commentaries - with Josh from Sermonary
Hello Church! - March 18, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutesDo you use commentaries when you write your sermons? If not, should you? The Bible is the foundation for every sermon we write, but secondary resources can be incredibly valuable in helping us understand it. After all, the Bible is thousands of years old. By virtue of the Spirit, it was penned ...
The Ultimate Guide to Preaching Effectively - The Preachers Handbook
Hello Church! - March 16, 2021 06:00 - 11 minutesWe have something REALLY special to share with you today. As a pastor, you aren’t just preaching. You’re speaking at baby dedications, weddings, and funerals; you’re prepping for important seasons like Easter and Christmas; you’re trying to put together a team and wrangle volunteers. You could...
How to Preach to In-Person and Online Audiences at the Same Time
Hello Church! - March 09, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutesDo you feel like your preaching doesn’t “work” over video? Preaching to in-person and online audiences at the same time is trickier than it sounds. When you preach to an in-person group, you can improvise based on your momentum and how the audience is responding. But these tactics don’t work a...
3 Reasons Why Pastors Should Preach Through the Old Testament - with Josh Taylor from Sermonary
Hello Church! - March 04, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutesWhen’s the last time you preached on the book of Ezekiel? Maybe never, right? You may have taught from other Old Testament books, but data shows that there’s a “New Testament favoritism” among American churches. We tend to feel like the New Testament is easier to understand and apply than the Ol...
3 Reasons Why Pastors Should Preach Through the Old Testament
Hello Church! - March 04, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutesWhen’s the last time you preached on the book of Ezekiel? Maybe never, right? You may have taught from other Old Testament books, but data shows that there’s a “New Testament favoritism” among American churches. We tend to feel like the New Testament is easier to understand and apply than the Ol...
Easter Marketing Ideas for Your Church (that you NEED this year!)
Hello Church! - March 02, 2021 08:00 - 19 minutesHow can you increase attendance at your Easter service this year? Whether your church is meeting in person or online (or both), Easter presents a unique opportunity to attract people who don’t go to church often — or who don’t go at all. There are plenty of people looking for a service to attend...
How to Keep Church Staff Meetings Productive - Sermonary
Hello Church! - February 23, 2021 08:00 - 16 minutesDo you control your meetings, or do your meetings control you? Meetings tend to multiply. They can take over your schedule — and worse, they can derail fast. Before you know it, your countless meetings become unproductive, last too long, and leave you with more work to do (and less time to do it...
How We Create Sermon Series and Sermon Calendars
Hello Church! - February 16, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutesEver wonder how we create all of our sermon series? Today we’d like to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce all the sermon resources you find on the Ministry Pass site. Our process is creative but it’s also streamlined — and it might inspire the way you develop content ...
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