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How Blood-Earnest Should a Preacher Be?

January 12, 2023Mike Leake

C.S. Lewis once spoke about the difficulty of sustaining worship. Worship by it’s very nature is a looking outside of ourselves. As soon as we start thinking about worship we end up not worshipping, this is how Lewis said it:… Continue Reading →

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One Thing I Hope to Learn From John Piper In Preaching

May 2, 2018Mike Leake 1 Comment

We preachers can be a bit like mynah birds in that we mimic our favorite preachers. It’s a little silly when we pick up some of their quirky delivery methods. But it’s also okay to learn from those who faithfully… Continue Reading →

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Two Truths for When You Don’t Feel Like Preaching

April 2, 2018Mike Leake 2 Comments

“A man only preaches a sermon well to others if he has first preached it to himself. If he does not thrive on the ‘food’ he prepares, he will not be skilled at making it appetizing to others. If the… Continue Reading →

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This House Protected By…

January 4, 2016Mike Leake

This is one of those heated issues of which I’m a bit timid to enter the fray. And truthfully I’m not really interested in putting out my opinion on whether or not Christians should be encouraged to arm themselves. My… Continue Reading →

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