This week on the Preaching Coach podcast we welcome our guest Matthew MacCollin to conclude our conversation on Pastoring the Hard Cases! Matt MacCollin is the Pastor of Men and Addictions at Salem Heights Church in Salem, Oregon. Matt also serves as the Director of the Most Excellent Way International Ministry. If you are interested in The Most Excellent Way Ministry then check out their website https://www.tmewcf.org/

This week on the Preaching Coach podcast we welcome our first guest Dr. Tony Mathews to continue our conversation on Pastoring the Hard Cases! Dr. Mathews recently completed a thirty-year pastorate at North Garland Baptist Fellowship and now currently serves as a senior strategist for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. No seminary course can prepare you for dealing with the difficult people in your church. Even if you’ve spent years building a healthy church, you cannot escape dealing with the hard cases—difficult church members. Why? There is no perfect church.

No seminary course can prepare you for dealing with the difficult people in your church. Even if you’ve spent years building a healthy church, you cannot escape dealing with the hard cases—difficult church members. Why? There is no perfect church. Over the next few weeks, the Preaching Coach podcast will be discussing how to pastor difficult church members. Join us for part 1!

This Good Friday and Easter Sunday learn how to preach the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ! In this Preaching Coach episode, Dr. Allen discusses how to communicate the cross and resurrection in your sermon with clarity, competence, and confidence!

Our tagline at Preaching Coach is Communicate with Clarity, Competence, and Confidence. Over the last few podcasts, Dr. David L. Allen unpacked two of these words preaching with clarity and competence. and what they mean for preachers and their sermons. The focus of this episode is Preaching with confidence. Dr. Allen discusses how to be confident in your preaching ministry.

Our tagline at Preaching Coach is Communicate with Clarity, Competence, and Confidence. Over the next few podcasts, Dr. David L. Allen will unpack each of these three words and what they mean for preachers and their sermons. The subject of this episode is preaching with competence. Dr. Allen discusses what it means to have competency in your preaching. He teaches what core competency, functional competency, and cross-functional competency have to do with preachers.

Our tagline at Preaching Coach is Communicate with Clarity, Competence, and Confidence. Over the next three podcasts, Dr. David L. Allen will unpack each of these three words and what they mean for preachers and their sermons. This episode’s focus is on preaching with clarity. Clarity must be crafted, it doesn’t happen on accident! Learn today how to communicate the word of God with clarity!

In this edition of the Preaching Coach Podcast, Dr. David L. Allen discusses the topic of plagiarism and preaching. Dr. Allen shares how pastors can avoid plagiarism in their sermons. Preachers will learn how to give proper credit to someone else's material as they preach with clarity, competence, and confidence to their church.  For more information on the topic, sign up to receive Dr. Allen’s free eBook on the subject of preaching and plagiarism. https://www.preachingcoach.com/ebook-keys-to-avoid-plagiarism-in-preaching

In this edition of the Preaching Coach Podcast, Dr. David L. Allen will examine how to preach like yourself! Personality, originality, and integrity, these ae the three necessary words if you are to preach like yourself. Listen to Dr. Allen share how these three words are vital to experiencing confidence in your preaching style.  For more information on the topic, sign up to receive Dr. Allen’s free eBook on the subject of preaching like yourself.  https://www.preachingcoach.com/ebook-preaching-like-yourself

Text Driven Preaching is the interpretation and communication of a biblical text in a sermon that represents the Substance, Structure, and the Spirit of the text. This is the final episode of a three-part series of podcasts on how to be text-driven in your preaching and teaching. This episode will focus on the spirit of the text. Learn how the genre and mood shape your sermon! For more information check out https://www.preachingcoach.com/the-power-of-text-driven-preaching Here are some of the references in this podcast Akin, Daniel L., David L Allen, and Ned L Mathews. Text-Driven Preaching: God's Word at the Heart of Every Sermon. Nashville, TN: B & H Academic, 2010. Kim, Dae Hyeok. Genre-Sensitive Expository Preaching of the Lament Psalms: Honoring the Message, Medium, and Mood of the Text, 2013. Smith, Steven W. Recapturing the Voice of God: Shaping Sermons like Scripture. Nashville, TN: B & H Academic, 2015. Vines, Jerry, and Adam Dooley. Passion in the Pulpit: How to Exegete the Emotion of Scripture. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2018.