Is it possible that one great, more full sermon per week could be far more effective than three or four sermons prepared without accountability? How do church activities effect the preaching quality?

Church Culture, Church AdministrationTom BalzamoMarch 4, 2024Thomas Balzamo, preaching, sermons, bad preaching, pastors, accountability, tradition, church servicesComment

Marks of Good Preaching - Christward

How does your preaching demonstrate Christ to the listener?

Church Administration, Doctrinal, TheologyTom BalzamoJanuary 27, 2024Thomas Balzamo, preaching, sermons, Bible Study, bad preaching, hermeneutics, exalting ChristComment

Marks of Good Preaching - You Are Not the Main Character

To the preacher who seeks to understand God and relate that understanding to the people, every single passage comes to life!

Church Administration, Doctrinal, TheologyTom BalzamoJanuary 16, 2024Thomas Balzamo, preaching, sermons, Bible Study, application, bad preaching, hermeneutics, knowing God, the mind of God, man-centered, God-centered, EstherComment

Marks of Good Preaching - Stable and Learned

A Berean Christian is aware of what real Bible preaching is and should be.

Church Administration, Doctrinal, TheologyTom BalzamoJanuary 3, 2024Thomas Balzamo, preaching, sermons, Bible Study, original intent, historical context, literary context, cross references, application, bad preaching, hermeneuticsComment

Marks of Good Preaching - Straight Lines and the Reasonable Person Standard

One must be able to draw as straight of a line as possible from the intent of the passage to the application one is making.

Church Administration, Doctrinal, TheologyTom BalzamoJanuary 3, 2024Thomas Balzamo, preaching, sermons, Bible Study, original intent, historical context, literary context, cross references, application, bad preaching, hermeneuticsComment

Marks of Good Preaching - Original Intent

Without authorial intent, God's people have different opinions of what passages mean based on their desired outcome.

Church Administration, Doctrinal, TheologyTom BalzamoDecember 2, 2023Thomas Balzamo, preaching, sermons, Bible Study, original intent, historical context, literary context, cross references, application, bad preachingComment

Marks of Good Preaching - Thoughts on Sermon Criticism

The proper method of sermon criticism, and why you should be utilizing it.

Church Administration, Church CultureTom BalzamoDecember 1, 2023Thomas Balzamo, preaching, sermons, bad preaching, preaching styles, sermon criticism, accountability, balance, discernmentComment

An Uncanny Prediction Tool: The Nine Ds of a Christian’s Self-destruction

There is a pattern to a Christian’s spiritual decline, and it’s startlingly predictable.

Changes in the Church

“Yoking Christianity with worldliness has never been accepted by God.”

Church Administration, Church CultureFloyd YoderJune 18, 2022Floyd Yoder, church administration, church, changeComment

What if the “Old Paths” Are Actually New? (Part 3)

How have Finney’s methods persisted to the present?

What if the “Old Paths” Are Actually New? (Part 2)

We examine how the actual old paths have been pushed aside, forgotten, marginalized, and labeled as nothing more than the unexciting theologizing of men who don’t have “the touch of God.”

What if the “Old Paths” Are Actually New? (Part 1)

What if the old paths are actually a new invention?

Church History, Church Administration, Church CultureTom BalzamoMay 17, 2022preaching, teaching, revival, revivalism, Finney, old paths, invitations, church administration, church, false professions, Thomas Balzamo Comment

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