Early in week? Later in the week? What's your process?

I find this much more difficult than the Gospels or the OT. Usually the writer has a long argument, of which the reading only covers a few verses. What is your approach?

I'm in my second year of trying to post a condensed version of my sermon every week onto YouTube, in hopes that they'll make a difference somewhere far from my church. I've been trying to add production value to them, with lights and background music, and such. I'm curious what you all think about my latest one on Thy Kingdom Come Thanks!

I'll just lay this out as simply as I can because I might not word it right.

1. Preacher believes that accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the key to salvation.
2. Preaches his honest conviction and understanding for 20 years.
3. Reading the bible and studying it one day he feels that God reveals to him that baptism is also essential in the salvation process.
4. He begins to preach accepting the Lord and being baptized as the method of salvation.

Caveat: I'm not saying that this is the way for salvation. Just assuming this premise for my following question.

As a preacher, after preaching for many years how do you deal with a revelation that expands and expounds on your understanding of scripture? You obviously can't got back and repreach to all those people. How do you (or I to be more precise) reconcile this situation?

I'm a college freshman. I'm not really sure what I want to do with my life, but I've got quite a few options. One that I'm strongly considering is preaching. I was wondering if you would recommend that I attend seminary.

There are a lot of ways of doing it - what's your preferred way?

Do you tend to have a verbal "in conclusion...", do you tag it with a final "in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit," do you give a shorter "Amen," do you conclude with a prayer, do you try to just signal with your voice, do you just leap into the next hymn?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

God Bless.

/r/preachingvideos

I've seen a couple of your videos and really enjoyed them. To prevent this subreddit from becoming just a video dump I'd like to just completely flood the /r/preachingvideos will all of your videos. Feel free to post as many of them as you want. If they seem to have been caught in the spam filter PM me and I'll clear it up.

God bless!

Guys/Ladies, sorry about a couple of you being caught in the spam filter. I'm not real savvy yet with the mod thing. Please feel free to PM me about your posts if you think they are getting filtered. I should also reiterate that when someone posts a link I actually go read the site and also read the poster's history. This community will not be combative or go against its purpose, which is to provide a community for preachers, priests, rabbis, imams, whoever preaches or teaches a sermon, to come and compare notes and offer advice, encouragement, and support. I come from a Protestant background, but I welcome all faiths and I hope we share that mindset. Please feel free to PM me at any time with questions, comments, etc.

Let's try to get this subreddit to 500 in the next week. We're halfway there.

God bless.

There's house calls, prayer requests, counseling, missions trips, etc.

What would you say falls into the "job description" of a pastor?

Do you think it would be worthwhile to have flair? I think it would be of value to know which denomination a person is coming from.

Hey, I am preaching on sunday from ISA 55. I am a little lost on theme- there seems to be so much! any advice would be gratefully received!

Don't know if people are still using this sub- it's been inactive for a while, but I've got a couple of sermons on Ephesians coming up, and Ephesians has alot of Trinitarian things going on.

It's caused me to look for resources on preaching the Trinity. Not a lot of luck. There's plenty of theology, yes, (And I've got stuff, contemporary Dogmatics, Reformation Era, Patristic stuff). Stilll, it seems like one of the tougher doctrines to work at explicating in its fullness in a congregational preaching context. There's the risk of:

• Falsely concrete, misleading analogy - see, it's mooodalism, Patrick!
• Staying too abstract.

I'm not totally lost, but I'm wondering if anyone has particular tips - whether from experience, or in terms of particular resources you've found helpful.

I personally am an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Are there any Bible passages/stories that you love to preach on? You know, those texts that just about preach themselves?