Category Archives: preaching

Sunday Service Evaluation Questions

By Yancey Arrington | July 5, 2011

Here are questions our teams in charge of putting together weekend worship services (e.g, teaching, music, sound, etc.) asks each week. These are intended to keep our services missionally-focused and intentionally-driven for our specific context. I’m sure over time we will add and delete questions as we get smarter, but for the moment, here is [...]

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I Liked Some of It…

By Yancey Arrington | February 20, 2011

I spoke with a young married couple after service today. I’m currently teaching on marriage and the selfless roles God calls us to in it, and they had a question. From the outset the husband, an affable gentleman, informed me he was not a Christian and that his wife was. He simply wanted to know [...]

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Seeing Your Sermon Emotionally

By Yancey Arrington | January 26, 2011

One of the ways to better understand your sermon is to think through the different emotions you intend  your hearers to experience in response to the truths of God’s Word. Every sermon has an emotional flow but likely few pastors think strategically about how the different elements of the message they’ve put together guides the [...]

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Acts 29 Houston Quarterly: Preaching

By Yancey Arrington | January 7, 2011

I’m excited to be a part of leading the Acts 29 Houston Quarterly on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 (9AM-2PM). The topic will be the learning, burdens and challenges of preaching today. The sessions are as follows: Crafting Gospel-Centered Sermons Latest Learnings about Message/Series Preparation Current Burdens & Challenges of Preaching In Topic #1 I will [...]

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Watch Yourself – A Note to Preachers

By Yancey Arrington | November 9, 2010

Evaluation isn’t a bad word at my church. Indeed, we do it often. It helps us avoid repeating the same mistakes and raises the level of excellence in future ministry endeavors. One of the areas we evaluate with regularity is preaching. For example, after the first of three services I meet with a handful of [...]

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