preaching Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/preaching/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Tue, 07 Feb 2023 23:06:35 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 preaching Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/preaching/ 32 32 116298986 Could ChatGPT ever preach a sermon? https://mikefrost.net/could-chatgpt-ever-preach-a-sermon/ https://mikefrost.net/could-chatgpt-ever-preach-a-sermon/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2023 19:46:16 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32275 ChatGPT has got some preachers spooked. I’m hearing some noted preachers, and teachers of preaching, nervously proclaiming that the sermon is safe from the chatbot because, well, ChatGPT can’t preach. But is that entirely true? It’s certainly true that ChatGPT can currently write sermons. Recently, a New York rabbi named Josh Franklin preached a sermon […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/could-chatgpt-ever-preach-a-sermon/feed/ 10 32275 Will the 10 minute homily be the new normal? https://mikefrost.net/will-the-10-minute-homily-be-the-new-normal/ https://mikefrost.net/will-the-10-minute-homily-be-the-new-normal/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:38:04 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29584 There has been much discussion about the ways the pandemic lockdown has affected our approach to doing and being church. We’ve been forced to move our programs online and close any non-essential ministries that can’t be conducted remotely.  Like other areas of our lives, we’ve engaged with members of our congregation via Zoom or FaceTime or […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/will-the-10-minute-homily-be-the-new-normal/feed/ 18 29584 “You’ve got ten minutes!”: learning how to preach in the church of Apple https://mikefrost.net/youve-got-ten-minutes-learning-how-to-preach-in-the-church-of-apple/ https://mikefrost.net/youve-got-ten-minutes-learning-how-to-preach-in-the-church-of-apple/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2018 01:57:35 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28209 On September 12, Apple hosted its latest product launch with the tagline “Gather round”, at which they introduced the new Apple Watch Series 4, and the next generation iPhones. The 1,000-seat Steve Jobs Theater in the Apple Park campus was packed for the 2-hour event. But the intriguing thing about Apple Events is that no […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/youve-got-ten-minutes-learning-how-to-preach-in-the-church-of-apple/feed/ 5 28209 Can you imagine Jesus delivering a TED talk? No, me either. https://mikefrost.net/can-you-imagine-jesus-delivering-a-ted-talk-no-me-either/ https://mikefrost.net/can-you-imagine-jesus-delivering-a-ted-talk-no-me-either/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:42:51 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28074 “I hate TED talks. I can’t abide the way presenters pace around the stage, I hate the gravity with which they deliver their message, and being patronised by a smug, overconfident ‘thought leader’ is pretty intolerable.” Julie Bindel is an English writer and co-founder of the law-reform group Justice for Women. And she hates TED talks. […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/can-you-imagine-jesus-delivering-a-ted-talk-no-me-either/feed/ 18 28074 What Oprah 2020 tells us about the power of the spoken word https://mikefrost.net/oprah-2020-tells-us-power-spoken-word/ https://mikefrost.net/oprah-2020-tells-us-power-spoken-word/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2018 06:45:30 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27531 The whole lesson of history is that preaching doesn’t work. – Alan Watts   When Alan Watts made that claim in his provocative talk “Preaching is moral violence” he was convinced by his reading of history that no meaningful change in human conduct ever occurs as a result of listening to a speech or lecture […]

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