Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching
Starting Strong: Thriving in the First Years of Preaching
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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.
Season 2, Episode 7: Preaching to Gen Zs and Millennials — with Guy Mason
How do you preach faithfully to generations shaped by smartphones, social media, individualism, and a rapidly changing cultural landscape? And how can we understand the people sitting in front of us without simply trying to make the gospel “cool”?
In this episode, we’re joined by Guy Mason, founding and Senior Pastor of City on a Hill, to explore how preachers can communicate the unchanging gospel to Gen Zs and Millennials. Guy shares practical wisdom on understanding the questions, assumptions, and longings of younger generations, while keeping the message firmly centred on Christ.
We discuss:
- What characterises the worldviews of Gen Zs and Millennials
- How cultural awareness can strengthen rather than compromise biblical preaching
- Communicating clearly in an age of distraction and scepticism
- Speaking to younger generations without pandering to them
- Why the timeless gospel remains exactly what younger people need
Whether you’re preaching to a congregation full of young adults or simply want to understand the generations you’re trying to reach, this conversation will help you preach with greater cultural awareness, clarity, and confidence without changing the message.
Our prayer is that these conversations would help raise up a generation of faithful, clear, and compelling preachers of God's Word. If you've enjoyed this episode, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who would benefit.
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