The Preaching With Soul Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sherman Cox
The Preaching With Soul Podcast is for preachers who wish to preach with soul by going into the text. Taking a stroll. Then coming out to tell the people what you have seen and heard.
You want to preach on a theme. What do You Do? What Text do You Use? Brother Sherman speaks on this issue in this episode.
How do you start off with the attention of your people? Brother Sherman answers this question from the people.
A preacher sometimes has to just trust that the word won't come back void. Brother Sherman discusses this important issue in our sermons.
How do you develop a preaching Style? Brother Sherman addresses this question that came in from one of our listeners.
If you ask God to help you to preach a great sermon. You are asking God to help you in the Struggle. Brother Sherman Cox discusses this issue in this episode.
A common question has to do with whether whooping is necessary in preaching. Brother Sherman Cox addresses this question in this episode.
Yelling about it won't fix the broken sermon. Brother Sherman Cox discusses some of these attempts to save a sermon that simply will not work.
Your sermon is not peripheral. Brother Sherman Cox discusses the importance of the sermon in the service.
Our sermons are to transform. Brother Sherman Cox talks about preaching for lasting change.
Everything flows. You have all the points. But is it a sermon? Brother Sherman Cox discusses this in this episode.
You are trying to close your sermon, but you are celebrating the wrong sermon. Brother Sherman Cox discusses this phenomenon in this episode.
Do you have something to say in the pulpit? Brother Sherman Cox discusses this question in this episode.
What is better, being a great pastor or preacher? Brother Sherman Cox discusses this question in this episode.
What would you rather be...
A great pastor....
Or a Great Preacher?
Yeah, I know you want to be both..
But what if you had to choose one?
A great pastor is going to mentor and disciple folks to help them become better representatives of the most high God.
The great preacher is going to provide messages that are like time bombs to blow up in the minds of the people...they blow up messages of hope and power right when the hearer needs it...
A great pastor is loved by the people and when the people need somebody to stand beside them in life's struggles...they call the pastor...
A great preacher is loved by the people as well..and when a word of hope and power is needed...they pop in the tape or turn on the mp3 player to the preacher's message...
In the final analysis...
God sends the great pastor...when the great pastor is needed...
And God sends the great preacher...when the great preacher is needed...
So which is better?
Both are needed...and both have their place...
And if you are a great preacher....be the great preacher God called you to be...and go head and work on those pastoral skills...
If you are a great pastor...be that great pastor...and yes work on those preaching skills...
The historic Black pastor and preacher helped us through the pains and hurts with a combination of pastoring and preaching and mentoring..and advocacy skills that allowed a people to make it through what they couldn't make it through otherwise...
And that's what my work is about....
If you want to see how this translates into a homieltic framework..then check out my homileitc at http://www.superchargeyoursermons.net.
God Bless,
Brother Sherman
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I sent out a request for tips on Bible Teaching. Specifically how to strengthen Sunday/Sabbath school and the Wednesday Night Bible Study. Pastor Anthony Watson provided some very helpful tips and that is the basis of this audio.
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What do your listeners want? In this audio I give a discussion of 5 things that I want from the preacher when I am listening to sermons.
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Peter Mead writes about 3 approaches to preaching on his blog. It is a helpful description of some of the things we do when we enter the pulpit.
Listen to my discussion on the subject and then go check out Mead’s article
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Are you Preaching an old west mythology or are you preaching in the real world? Listen to this Audio where Sherman Haywood Cox II discusses this important question. Download the audio at this link.
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The Parables have power, but how do you preach them? Do you preach them as a monument to the status quo? Do you preach them after a few minutes of analysis?
Do you preach them simply to illustrate pretty tame points in your sermons? Or do you let them attack us in our deep beliefs and thereby transform us? Check out his audio on that subject.
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Black Preaching. “Isn’t that racist?” “Good Preaching Has No Color!” “I’m Glad Jesus Loves All Races Unlike You.”
Yep, I have heard statements like these as well as other more pointed ones. Yes, I have been called a racist for addressing “Black Preaching.”
But even some of my supporters miss what I am attempting to do with this web site. Check it out on this audio.
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Don’t be fooled by the truncated gospel of those who would prostitute the Black Preaching Tradition. In this commentary, Pastor Cox discusses the importance of preaching the full message if one is to preach in the Black tradition. Download the audio at this link.
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How can preachers navigate the three intertwining stories we must exegete if we are to preach powerful sermons. Elder Cox addresses this issue in this audio.
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Sometimes we end up preaching in a rut. We only preach what we already preach. We see a different text, but the same sermon. How can we keep from becoming a Johnny One Note Preacher? Elder Cox addresses this issue in this 5 minute audio.
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You have to preach to the same people every week. What are you supposed to do? How can the preacher make sure the right themes are addressed? How can the preacher make sure that the preacher’s issues do not overly direct the sermon construction process. And finally, how can the preacher limit the number of times the people have to hear a “Saturday night special?”
In this 60 minute teleseminar I answer these and many more questions.
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What are the dimensions of Black Preaching? What is Black Preaching? Is it racist to speak of Black Preaching? Does it limit our reach to speak of Black Preaching? Is Black Preaching valuable? Do sermons preached in the black tradition address only black people?
In this 60 minute teleseminar I answer these and many more questions.
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A little bit ago, I re-posted an article on “Cotton Candy Sermons?” It sparked a conversation that included questions about whether candy and milk were the same thing in that the new believer cannot be expected to eat the solid food that the more seasoned saints enjoy. In addition, there was the issue about whether Candy and Dessert where synonymous.
This audio is an attempt to continue the conversation. I must admit that my understanding in this avenue is evolving, so come join the conversation. You can listen here or download the audio below.
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We have been talking about supporting an associate minister. This audio however is directed to Senior Pastors. How can Senior Pastors develop and support the associate minister in the church? Elder Cox addresses this question in this audio.
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