Articles for tag: SermonCentral

October 20, 2012

By Chuck Sackett “What”s in a name?” “What does the Bible say about God”s honor?” “Taking God”s name in vain.” Those recent searches resulted in an abundance of usable illustrative materials. Which is my way of saying, I don”t use the web for the substance of the sermon, I use it for developing creative means of communicating what the text has revealed through the hard work of Bible study. GoogleÂ is not the only search engine, but it represents a category of tools every preacher must become adept at using. The fact that the web abounds with material is both bane

October 19, 2012

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Teaching

The Web World I Travel: Resources for Bible Teaching (Part 1)

By Greg Lee I preach . . . so the Internet has become a great friend of mine. Yes, it”s fraught with potential pitfalls. You should avoid wasting time there viewing bad content or downloading a full sermon as a “Saturday Night Special.” But the web at its best is a place I use for the following: Living in the Present Throw away your shoebox of news clippings set aside as illustrations you might useÂ someday. Isn”t it almost always better to have an example from last Tuesday instead of 1998? No shockers here:Â cnn.com,news.google.com,Â people.com,Â espn.com, and the website for a local