Here is the stream of last Sunday’s worship service. The sermon was part of the series on David Jeremiah’s book The 12 Ways of Christmas. This week’s ways were Charity and Giving.
Wednesday Night will be on Humility.
Archive for category Preaching
Worship Service Stream
Nov 30
Here is Nov. 29, 2009 worship service stream from my church, High Peak Baptist Church. The sermon was the last in a four part sermon series entitled “The Christmases Before Christmas” about OT stories where God appeared in human form. This week was about Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis 32.
Latest Sermon
Nov 23
Here is the streaming video of my latest message at High Peak Baptist Church. This is the whole worship service, but the sermon starts at about 21:45.
An Illustration Bible
Oct 27
Do you use Bible software to study for preaching and teaching? I do. One of my programs of choice is Logos. Morris Proctor is THE Logos guru and does training as well as sends out a newsletter with great tips and info on Logos. In the most recent email newsletter he had a wonderful tip that I will likely employ for collecting illustrations. It is below:
I recently received an e-mail with this question:
Preachers are always in search of the perfect illustration. I’ve been collecting stuff from various sources and dumping them into my notes.
My question is: Can I make my own customized "Illustration Bible" with my collected illustrations embedded into the various texts?
Excellent idea and question! Here’s what to do:
- Create a new note file at File>New>Note File
- Name the file something like Illustration Bible
- Open any Bible to a verse for which you have an illustration
- Right click on any word in the verse
- From the right menu select Add a Note > Add a Note to Illustration Bible > Add a Note to "the verse"
- This creates a note in the note file and adds a note indicator in the Bible
- Paste the illustration in the note file
- Click the Note Color icon on the note file toolbar and select a color for the note indicator in the Bible (use the same color for all illustrations and pick something other than the yellow default color)
Now when you open any Bible to that verse and see that color note indicator next to the verse, you know you have an illustration for it! Just click the indicator to jump straight to the illustration.
Get Morris Proctor’s info at his helpful site.
I have created a new forum just for pastors and preachers. This is a forum dedicated to helping the pastors and preachers who like to work together to study the Bible. We will study passages, topics and theology together to challenge each other and help each other learn, understand and communicate God’s word.
If you want to join us, click the link above and start posting!
Just read this on one of my favorite blogs. He says three things can kill any preacher, not literally but spiritually.
What are they? Go read the post!
Great Revival!
Apr 30
I don’t know if I’ve ever been part of a more exciting and worshipful Revival. God really blessed High Peak Baptist Church and probably around 10-15 decisions for Christ were made with 6 of them being salvations or public professions of previous private commitments. We are going to have a Baptism Service this Sunday Night. 
Now, let’s keep it going. I’ll be expecting great things this Sunday!!
Revelation Sermons
Mar 31
Here are the next two sermons in the series on Revelation…
This is from Revelation 6-7 and is about the opening of the seven seals at the end of which the people who survive the ordeal ask, “Who can stand in the face of such judgment?” The answer is given in chapter 7 where God seals the saints and protects them from suffering.
This next sermon is from chapter 8-9 where the trumpets are blown and with each one there is further judgment. This shows us that even in the face of this amazing work of God, some will still not accept Him.
More Sermons from Revelation
Mar 31
Continuing the series on the book of Revelation, here are the next five sermons. I got a little behind in posting them, so here they are all in one post.
This first one is part one of two parts on chapter four, which is John’s vision of the throne room of heaven. He sees a door and behind that door is the throne of God. The message is about heaven and what it is like as it relates to our being with God.
The next message is part two of chapter four about God. We look at the same passage only focusing this time on God instead of heaven in general. The goal is to paint a picture of how God is described in this passage.
Chapter 5 of Revelation introduces the scroll and its seven seals. But no one is worthy to open it. In this message I ask, “What if Jesus’ death was the end of the story; what if there was no resurrection?”
I will post the next two in another post. For now, enjoy these. And if you ever would like to talk to me about them, send me an email.
CCMag Available
Mar 27
My latest article for Christian Computing Magazine is available at ccmag.com or at this link for the PDF of just my article. I wrote about using Google’s Apps for your own domain. That way you can use Gmail for your domain’s email address. I am currently doing that with my personal site www.KevinPurcell.org.
