Comments for Ministry Nuts and Bolts

Comment on 100 today! by amandabrewerton

amandabrewerton — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:05:40 +0000

I read because I know you and you remind me to read by posting on Facebook. I trust what you say.

I like the style in which you write. It’s helpful and practical stuff which often starts a conversation with my (Minister) husband or helps us to dig deeper into how we’re seeking to serve in our parish. I don’t read a lot of blogs because I’m not an academic and the ones I seem to stumble across lose me in the second paragraph. Yours is short, pithy, practical and yet still teaches me from scripture.

I look forward to the next 100.

Comment on Simmering sermons by Chris Green

Chris Green — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:23:33 +0000

Nor me, Phil. Fortunately, I think most of the great ones did take their time more, so there’s no need to feel quite so hustled by Charlie!

Comment on Simmering sermons by Martin Salter

Martin Salter — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:28:16 +0000

It’s like a good cuppa – you have to let it brew

Comment on Simmering sermons by Phill

Phill — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:56:33 +0000

Chris, I did wonder why your sermon didn’t involve a flipchart this time! But it didn’t come across as unprepared to me at all.

Still, this is good advice, unless you happen to be Spurgeon:

“I am always sure to have the most happy day when I get a good text in the morning from my Master. When I have had to preach two or three sermons in a day, I have asked Him for the morning subject, and preached from it; and I have asked Him for the afternoon’s topic or the evening’s portion, and preached from it, after meditating on it for my own soul’s comfort, — not in the professional style of a regular sermon-maker, but feasting upon it for myself. Such simple food has done the people far more good than if I had been a week in manufacturing a sermon, for it has come warm from the heart just after it has been received in my own soul; and therefore it has been well spoken, because well known, well tasted, and well felt”

Unfortunately I’m not, so back to the week-long drawing board for me.

Comment on Simmering sermons by Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:03:31 +0000

Yep! Gotta let a sermon breathe and simmer before they are ready!

Comment on 100 today! by Stephen Watkinson

Stephen Watkinson — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:28:38 +0000

1. It give me something short and manageable to read to help and challenge me in ministry. Sometimes it reminds me of what I know, sometimes it pushes me somewhere knew.

2. I think the insights that I can’t or am not likely to read in books/elsewhere on ministry.

Thanks!

Comment on 100 today! by Martyn Woosdford

Martyn Woosdford — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:33:56 +0000

I visit you site because I know you. Second I visit you site because you push me to do ministry better. You passion for a better church doing better ministry matters. I like you see beyond just weekly Sunday by Sunday, you ask for more than that, to prepare for a better ministry for a longer term delivery and thinking. Thanks

Comment on Six parts of planning a sermon series by Chris Green

Chris Green — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:18:15 +0000

I’ve normally been part of a team, so these decisions are made together, but it’s always helpful for one person to be team leader and have the responsibility for the overall architecture, and how the series works as a whole. Also to brief and advise on commentaries etc.

Comment on Six parts of planning a sermon series by Dave Williams

Dave Williams — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:41:56 +0000

thanks Chris. Do you run your own series or does your church share a series across preachers? How is that decided. We share a series between elders. One benefit of that is that I have to justify any decisions about where to structure things with the others -especially if I choose to disagree with the NIV paragraph breaks or a couple of well known commentaries

Comment on Six parts of planning a sermon series by Dan Gould

Dan Gould — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:46:47 +0000

Ha- that’s true I suppose. I like how much thought/work you put into it. I think series prep can sometimes be done too quickly, which makes no sense considering the amount of time you’ll then be spending in that series.