Expositors Collective

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Developing Your Gift - Developing Your GiftDeveloping Your Gift Recorded in Thousand Oaks California in  March of 2018, David Guzik speaks about the ways that preachers grow over time in the development of the gift that God has given them. He also answers questions from Mike Neglia and Michael McCalebb about fact-checking, lazy statistics and the benefits of deep thinking and meditating upon God's Word. David Guzik is the author of the widely trusted and popular Enduring Word Bible Commentary, a verse-by-verse study through the entire Bible used by everyday Christians and pastors, preachers, and Bible teachers. This commentary is available at no cost at the website enduringword.com and the Blue Letter Bible (blb.org). David lives in Santa Barbara with Inga-Lill, his wife of 38 years. They have three adult children and two grandchildren. The Expositors Collective podcast is part of the GoodLion podcast network, for more thought provoking Christian podcasts visit https://goodlion.io

Mike speaks with Suzy Silk about the Holy Spirit’s role in sermon preparation, delivery and application. How does He guide, inform and confirm His truth in the days and moments leading up to the proclamation of the Word? Suzy also answers some of Mike’s questions about the vibrant culture of prayer at Church of the City New York as they seek to embody theology that cannot be dismissed and power that cannot be denied.

In this conversation from July, 2018, Mike speaks with Ted Leavenworth about the mistakes that new preachers most often make as they begin their public ministries. Whether it is cramming sermons with too much information, or ripping off the style or content of other more established preachers, Ted diagnoses both the problems and the solutions to many of these common early errors.

Every Bible teacher preaches topical sermons. Some preachers give topical messages from the pulpit every Sunday, and some only on holidays or for a special series, but all of us need to invest work into improving in this area of sermon preparation and delivery. Nick Cady answers some of Mike Neglia’s questions about best practices and techniques. Some topical preaching can be sloppy and biased, but Nick believes that focused topical sermons can prove a valuable part of our congregation's spiritual diet.

Nate Morris is the lead pastor of Mountain Life Calvary Chapel, with locations in the Vail and Roaring Fork Valleys of Colorado. Having grown up in the Colorado mountains, he has a special place in his heart for reaching and transforming mountain communities with the gospel. Nate served as a youth leader, worship leader, missions pastor & assistant pastor before stepping into God’s call on his life to preach & lead a church. Nate planted a church Lakewood Colorado, where he served for 7 years, before moving to the Vail Valley to lead Mountain Life Calvary Chapel. Pastor Nate has a fire in his bones for the dual callings of the great commission: outreach and discipleship. Nate also hosts the New Day Podcast with Pastor Nate Morris. In this episode, Nate speaks with Nick Cady about what we can learn from preachers who are excellent communicators but not necessarily good expositors. They talk about the idea of designing services around a theme, and the use of props and tangible elements to create multi-sensory experiences in church services, as well as where to draw the line between teaching tools and gimmicks. You can connect with Nate on Instagram and Facebook.

Sébastien and Mike talk about earnestness and authenticity in preaching, and the priority of the Word of God above the opinions of learned men. Recorded in April of 2019 in New York City. Born in Montreal, Sébastien Frappier became a professional actor at the age of thirteen. Despite regular appearances within Quebecois television, film and stage productions for more than ten years, Sébastien found himself increasingly disillusioned by the local industry, and left for California to pursue secular fame. As it happened, Hollywood would never know Sébastien Frappier. Within the hot desert of New Mexico, the gift of new life through Jesus Christ became real to Sébastien. Personal ambitions to rise to fame melted away as a new greater purpose for living slowly impressed itself upon his heart. After attending Calvary of Albuquerque's School of Ministry in the early 90's, Sébastien became a pastoral intern to a 15,000 member congregation under the leadership of Pastor Skip Heitzig. Sébastien then worked as a full time ordained pastor at Calvary of Albuquerque as a Bible teacher, a Church History teacher, a Biblical counsellor, and an overseer of several ministries, including 35 home fellowships. Sébastien then returned to Montreal in 2004 and founded Calvary Chapel Montreal Regeneration that same year. 16 later the church in thriving downtown Montreal, With mostly young people, from 20 countries and joyfully growing: 52 babies were born in the last couple years!!! Sébastien is married to Andréia and has two older sons Jude and Luke and a sweet little 2 year old, Clarice. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292025/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t18 The Expositors Collective podcast is part of the GoodLion podcast network, for more thought provoking Christian podcasts visit https://goodlion.io

Dr Jason Cruise speaks with Mike about the often-neglected importance of application in sermon preparation and delivery. He suggests that preachers are hesitant to bring out points of application because they don’t want to seem shallow, don’t want to spoon-feed their congregations or sometimes it may be that they are just plain lazy! Getting into the mindset of the average hearer will help preachers to understand that what we bring to the pulpit might not be actually helpful to those who we are trying to serve. Speaking with humility, experience and candour Jason gives a gently challenge to all of us to make our Bible teachings are more applicable to the real lives of our hearers!