by stevecuss | Aug 17, 2015 | Church Culture, Preaching, Uncategorized
Ira Glass is one of the most gifted story curators today. His most known work is the radio show/podcast “This American Life” but he also has the goods on story composition. About every other year he stops by town to host a seminar which is part...
by stevecuss | Mar 19, 2014 | Preaching
1. What to tell: Something fresh, unexpected, funny, moving, unusual, but at the same time something that expresses a commonality of the human experience. Our stories must be “human sized” so listeners can see themselves in them. Preachers are guilty as...
by stevecuss | Jun 8, 2012 | Church Culture, Preaching, Uncategorized
“If you don’t preach as if non Christians are there, non Christians will never be there, because they’ll never be brought. If you preach like ‘it’s just us chickens here’ nobody will bring any ducks in. So you need to preach as if...
by stevecuss | Jun 5, 2012 | Preaching
Fred Craddock, one of the finest preachers in America, teaches the importance of allowing the listener to wrestle with your message. His basic premise is that a preacher ought not be holed up in his or her study for 10 – 15 hours per week, wrestling with the...
by stevecuss | May 25, 2012 | Preaching
Three or four years ago, I stumbled across the above image on a Flikr forum. I found it completing arresting and enchanting and decided it would make a strong basis for a Christmas sermon series. I grabbed the image and filed it “for future use.” As I...
by stevecuss | May 23, 2012 | Preaching
Just recently I’ve taken to making my own beef jerky. My kids are jerky fanatics and making our own is much cheaper than buying. Jerky, it turns out, is all about marination time. The longer you marinate the meat, the better the taste. And so we segue into...
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