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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Content Themes
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.
Bonus Episode: Preaching the Gospel Clearly with Rico Tice
What does it actually mean to preach the gospel clearly? And how do we make sure that, when we preach, people understand not just what Christianity is, but what God is calling them to do with Jesus?
In this bonus episode, we’re joined by Rico Tice, evangelist, author, and founder of Christianity Explored, to talk about the heart of clear gospel preaching. Rico brings decades of experience communicating Christ to people who may have little or no Christian background with loads of wisdom learned from John Chapman as well.
We discuss:
- What makes a gospel presentation genuinely clear
- Explaining vital aspects of Christianity to a 13 year old
- Stating the importance of godliness in leaders and equipping others
- How to call people to respond
- Providing helpful illustrations to make the point sticky
Whether you're preaching a Sunday sermon, a Christmas or Easter service, an evangelistic event, or simply want to become clearer when explaining the gospel, this conversation with Rico will challenge you to make the good news of Jesus unmistakably clear.
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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