Top Ten Tips for Improving Your Preaching

Top Ten Tips for Improving your Preaching

1. PLAN AHEAD (so you can dialogue, study, and crowd source)

2. Keep in mind the scripture, the season, and the needs of the people.

3. Don’t be afraid to be prophetic and speak to current events, even controversial ones.

4. Take time to edit. Some things should remain behind the scenes. Some examples would work better in a different sermon. Not everything you think of should necessarily make it into the final product.

5. Be yourself in the pulpit.

6. Avoid “Stained Glass” and “”Ya’ll come on down” voices.

7. Read regularly.

8. Find good preachers to watch on Youtube, find time to worship elsewhere.

9. Carve out and protect time every week for sermon preparation. Enlist Staff Parish to support your efforts.

10. One key to building a vital congregation is engaging in an ongoing dialogue with your congregation about our holy scriptures.