Tag: contextualization

• Be Careful with Specific Examples

  

  It’s helpful for preachers to use specific sermon examples that are contextualized. But we need to be careful not to alienate others by those examples.

  Hunter Bethea

  January 11, 2026

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  chaplain, context, contextualization, examples, pastor, preacher, preaching, priest, public speaking, rector, sermon, sermon prep, sermon writing, speaking, speech

• Give Me the Elmore County Version

  

  Our people want to hear sermons with examples and in language that they can understand. How can you give them truths they understand?

  Hunter Bethea

  December 14, 2025

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  church, context, contextualization, doctrine, incarnation, language, pastor, preacher, preaching, priest, public speaking, sermon, sermon prep, sermon writing, truth