A Word to the Wise: www.KarlVaters.com
Here’s a simple piece of advice for my generation of seasoned pastors. If you want to make your Sunday messages more effective for how people live and listen today, do this one thing: Stop making your sermon notes rhyme or alliterate.
Rhymes and alliterations used to make speakers seem credible, authoritative, and prepared. That’s no longer the case.
Hey Boomer, Stop Making Your Sermon Notes Rhyme Or Alliterate, Karl Vaters, 2.17.25
Here’s a simple piece of advice for my generation of seasoned pastors. If you want to make your Sunday messages more effective for how people live and listen today, do this one thing: Stop making your sermon notes rhyme or alliterate.
Rhymes and alliterations used to make speakers seem credible, authoritative, and prepared. That’s no longer the case.
Hey Boomer, Stop Making Your Sermon Notes Rhyme Or Alliterate, Karl Vaters, 2.17.25
Here are Four Things to Know this Week:
1. BF&M 100: Part 1 Defining and Defending the Faith (Charles Jones, Baptist Press)
2. What To Do If You’ve Become Hardened in Ministry (Chuck Lawless)
3. A Lean Ministry is a Smart Ministry (Dan Reiland)
4. New Study Explores Americans’ Shifting Beliefs About God; 30% Identify as Agnostic, Atheistic, or Indifferent (American Worldview Institute, The Baptist Paper)
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope it is a help to you.
Please share it or certain articles that you believe would bless your Pastors.
To the praise of His glory,
Ray
1. BF&M 100: Part 1 Defining and Defending the Faith (Charles Jones, Baptist Press)
2. What To Do If You’ve Become Hardened in Ministry (Chuck Lawless)
3. A Lean Ministry is a Smart Ministry (Dan Reiland)
4. New Study Explores Americans’ Shifting Beliefs About God; 30% Identify as Agnostic, Atheistic, or Indifferent (American Worldview Institute, The Baptist Paper)
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope it is a help to you.
Please share it or certain articles that you believe would bless your Pastors.
To the praise of His glory,
Ray
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