Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching
Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching
Podcast Description
Preaching is hard, especially in your first years. Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching brings you wisdom from experienced preachers to help you stay faithful, encouraged, and growing. We’re not the experts but we’re bringing them to you, with real conversations, practical tips, and hard-hitting truths to sharpen and sustain you for the road ahead.Start strong. Preach well. Stay true.
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The podcast covers essential topics for new preachers, including sermon engagement, effective communication, and concluding sermons powerfully. For example, episodes focus on identifying the 'big idea' of a passage with guest David Cook, and how to finish sermons effectively with Rory Shiner, providing practical steps and real-life applications to enhance preaching skills.
Preaching is hard, especially in your first years. Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching brings you wisdom from experienced preachers to help you stay faithful, encouraged, and growing. We’re not the experts but we’re bringing them to you, with real conversations, practical tips, and hard-hitting truths to sharpen and sustain you for the road ahead.
Start strong. Preach well. Stay true.
Episode 10: Heart Application with Murray Capill
Preaching isn’t finished until God’s Word reaches real lives. But how do we move from explaining the text to showing its transforming power in the everyday?
In this season finale, we’re joined by Murray Capill, pastor, author, and long-time lecturer in preaching, to explore the heart of application. Murray unpacks why application is not an optional add-on, but the very goal of preaching, and how preachers can connect the Bible to the joys and struggles of their people with helpful ideas and frameworks.
We discuss:
- Why application is central to biblical preaching
- How to make sermons land in different contexts and with diverse listeners
- Common pitfalls in application and how to avoid them
- How application keeps pointing people to Christ rather than just “good advice”
This episode ties together the themes of the whole season, reminding us that preaching is not only about saying true things but about God’s Word bringing lasting change in real lives.
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