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Orpheus Heyward | Family With Differences | BP2 Season 2 Episode 18
In this episode of the Better Preaching Podcast, Dr. Frank Weller welcomes Dr. Orpheus J. Heyward, minister of the Renaissance Church of Christ in Atlanta and Great Lakes Christian College's 2023 commencement speaker. Orpheus shares his journey from New York, where he was baptized under his uncle, to his mentorship under Dr. W.F. Washington, a traveling companion of Marshall Keeble. He traces the rich heritage of African American Churches of Christ, describes a calling he first sensed at age eight, and explains why preaching must remain a calling rather than a career. The conversation also explores unity between a cappella Churches of Christ and independent Christian churches, the cost of building bridges, and the core convictions both streams share.
22 Oct 2026
Great Sermons of the Restoration Movement | Bob Russell | Maximizing Your Preaching Gifts
On this installment of Great Sermons of the Restoration Movement, Bob Russell, longtime senior minister of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, offers five practical ways any preacher can get better, whatever their gifts. Drawing on four decades in the pulpit and a self-described lack of dynamism, Russell urges preachers to improve their physical setting, study smarter, preach with a joyful countenance, honestly match sermon length to their gifts, and preach expository sermons through books of the Bible most of the time. Along the way he tells stories involving PGA golfers, Abraham Lincoln, Joe DiMaggio, and a Christmas sermon that forgot the shepherds. He closes with a Christmas brunch that shows why faithful preaching bears fruit we may not see for decades.
15 Oct 2026
Nate Ross | Blessed are the Undone | BP2 Season 2 Episode 16
Nate Ross returns to the Better Preaching Podcast for a candid conversation about what happens when the metrics look great and the soul does not. Nate shares the season that led him out of the lead pastor role at Northside Christian Church — growing numbers, a successful capital campaign, and a persistent lack of peace no lever could fix — and the question from a counselor that finally opened things up. He unpacks the framework that reshaped his ministry: awareness, then access, then action, drawn from Revelation 2 and the deep waters of Proverbs 20:5. We talk about the "industry standard" preachers unconsciously chase, why seventy percent of Bible college graduates leave pastoral ministry within a decade, and what it means to be undone before the Lord.
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