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Small Preaching: 25 Little Things You Can Do Now to Become a Better Preacher is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is bigger always better? It’s not often that we hear the virtues of the small. Our culture teaches that bigger is better—and that includes church ministry and preaching, too. But what if rather than swinging for the fences, preachers focused on improving their sermons through small habits, practices, and exercises? What if smaller is better? In a world where “small” isn’t always celebrated,...

The words “caustic” and “encaustic” are related because they both refer to burning. But one is negative, and the other, positive. Caustic burns to destroy (physically or metaphorically). Encaustic burns to create. Encaustic painting heats up wax so that it can be poured and smoothed layer by layer, creating beautiful, multidimensional, luminous pictures. It is a slow art, with each stratum and color cooling before the next is applied. So what is encaustic preaching? Encaustic preaching as a metaphor
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