Kevin Bordeaux, Author at SermonSearch

7 Pastoral Responsibilities That Aren’t Just Preaching

Many pastors feel called into the ministry because of how preaching from a pulpit makes them feel. Public speaking releases adrenaline, cortisol, and even dopamine. This is why some pastors who are gifted at public speaking enjoy it so much. It releases these hormones that can create a euphoric feeling.…

Kevin BordeauxMarch 15, 2024

Preaching Tips

Preaching Tips for Beginners

Preaching, especially the first sermon, often seems highly rewarding, filled with anticipation, praise, and a profound sense of spiritual fulfillment. This idealistic view can drive many to choose full-time ministry, expecting a constant replication of these peak experiences. However, the reality of consistent preaching involves high expectations, criticism, pressure to…

Kevin BordeauxJanuary 26, 2024

Leadership

How to Retain Your Easter Visitors

Easter is one of the highest attended days for churches around the world. Churches do not have to put much effort into the marketing and promotional part of Easter. Often in Western culture, Easter is when people who don’t regularly attend church come. It is also cultural for extended families…

Kevin BordeauxMarch 29, 2023

Leadership Preaching Tips

The 7 Worst Mistakes Pastors Make While Preparing for Easter

Easter for the Christian Church is the equivalent to the Big Game Sunday in American Football. Church services are more highly attended than any other time of the year, and the Church gets to celebrate the most important event in human history, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This time of…

Kevin BordeauxMarch 15, 2023

Encouragement Leadership

12 Ways Pastors Can Create a Healthy Work-Life Balance

Pastoral burnout, moral failure, and resignations are at an all-time high. A major factor is overwhelming ministry stress and a lack of work-life balance. According to Soul Shepherding: 75% of pastors report being “extremely stressed” or “highly stressed.” 90% work between 55 to 75 hours per week. 90% feel fatigued…

Kevin BordeauxSeptember 22, 2022

Preaching Tips Sermon Ideas

The 8 Keys to Planning a Powerful Sermon Series

The task of writing a sermon every week can seem daunting to pastors. One of the hardest parts of the job is creating fresh material each Sunday for the congregation. Some pastors have to preach multiple times a week at different services. The amount of content a pastor is asked…

Kevin BordeauxSeptember 8, 2022

Leadership

How to Create a Healthy Church Culture

Peter Drucker once said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast every time.” One of the hardest issues to fix within a church is a culture problem. Culture is the norm of behaviors in a group of people. It’s how they solve problems, resolve conflicts or even interact. We’ve all been to…

Kevin BordeauxSeptember 1, 2022

Leadership

7 Symptoms of a Dying Church & How to Address Them

Churches have a life cycle, just as any living thing has a life cycle. They experience the seasons of birth, growth, plateau, decline, and death. It is important for a church to understand this and embrace this fact so they can know what season they are in and how to…

Kevin BordeauxJune 23, 2022

Encouragement Leadership

8 Things They Don’t Teach You in Seminary

Seminary has great significance in helping a pastor understand how to dissect the Bible in a scholarly way. It will increase critical thinking skills, teach you to work with deadlines and expose you to brilliant minds. However, there are things that seminary doesn’t teach you. Why? There isn’t enough time…

Kevin BordeauxJune 21, 2022

Preaching Tips

The 6 Signs of a Really Bad Sermon

There is nothing worse than feeling like your time has been wasted. Time is a finite resource, and once it is gone, it can never be recouped. However, countless congregants have felt this way about a sermon or multiple sermons from a pastor. Most people show up to church hoping…

Kevin BordeauxApril 20, 2022

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