tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703525922228392332024-03-05T12:07:43.226-08:00Confessions of a PastorThe occasional writings of Dr. Hershael W York, Victor and Louise Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Senior Pastor of Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, KY.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197598588198399592noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670352592222839233.post-1948867416847259132014-02-11T21:35:00.001-08:002014-02-12T03:58:30.711-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A NEW SITE!<br />
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I am actively posting now at <a href="http://pastorwell.com/">pastorwell.com</a>, a site aimed at sharing pastoral wisdom and Christian insight. Please visit <a href="http://pastorwell.com/">pastorwell.com</a>, bookmark it, and come back often. I am posting articles primarily about the Christian life, marriage, contemporary issues, and serving as a pastor. I do not promise you won't see occasional photos of my ridiculously cute grandchildren, frequent tributes to my godly, gracious, and gorgeous wife, Tanya, and grateful descriptions of the most grace-filled church I've ever known, Buck Run Baptist Church (buckrun.org), but I do promise I will try to post lots of articles of substance that will help you in your Christian walk. If it helps you remember it, you can also get there by going to <a href="http://hershaelyork.com/">hershaelyork.com</a>. I hope you like the new format, and I hope you find information there that helps you in life, ministry, and marriage.<br />
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Come to the well and be refreshed: <a href="http://pastorwell.com/">pastorwell.com</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197598588198399592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670352592222839233.post-45776901191984705472013-12-11T09:00:00.002-08:002013-12-14T18:00:38.136-08:00Pastor Well (Come to the well and refresh yourself!)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What: <b>A crash course in pastoral ministry</b><br />
Where: Buck Run Baptist Church, 3894 Georgetown Road, Frankfort, KY<br />
When: <b>Monday-Tuesday December 16-17</b>, 8:30am-3:30pm<br />
Cost: <b>FREE!</b><br />
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Lodging: Free upon request in homes (limited availability), local hotels<br />
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As much as I love preaching, perhaps my favorite of all the courses I teach at Southern Seminary is my 40301 Pastoral Ministry course that I have taught for 17 years. Since I grew up a pastor's son, am father to a pastor, and serve as a pastor, I obviously have a love for pastors and, even more, a love for the Lord's church.<br />
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Next <b>Monday and Tuesday, December 16 and 17</b>, the media folks at Southern are coming to Buck Run to film me teaching the content of that course for future online use. It's much easier to teach and to be engaging if I have a live audience, so I am inviting anyone who wants to come for those two days to make a trip to Buck Run, enjoy our hospitality, and draw from the <b>Pastor Well</b> so you can, um, pastor <i>well</i>. No academic credit is being offered for being in the audience, but you get the content of the course lectures. If you desire to serve as a pastor or if you are a pastor in need of some new ideas and challenges, this will be a great opportunity.<br />
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We'll talk about church discipline, how to baptize, working with staff, how to build a culture of generosity and grace, how to deal with a search committee. Things we aren't even planning will come up. And if you come, you can submit some questions for me to answer if they would be helpful. You can see below a partial list of things I will cover.<br />
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Some of the wonderful saints at Buck Run have volunteered to open their homes, and more will if I just ask, so if you want to come and need a place to stay, send my assistant, Tracy Hodges, an email at thodges@buckrun.org and we will do what we can. Or you are welcome to commute, to come for one day, or to make your own arrangements.<br />
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I hope to see you there!<br />
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Session 1: The Call to Ministry<o:p></o:p></div>
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The call is not a general to all
Christians but a specific moving of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The call is the intersection of
desire, gifting, opportunity, and the testimony of the church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The success and survival of your ministry
depends on the strength of your calling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 2: The Call to a Specific Ministry<o:p></o:p></div>
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The biblical emphasis is on doing
the will of God more than knowing the will of God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Friesen’s view of God’s will:
sanctified common sense coupled with a passionate desire to honor the Lord in
every situation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Christians
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Session 3: Licensing and Ordination<o:p></o:p></div>
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calling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ordination is a formal and legal
acknowledgment of one’s calling, competence, and conduct.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 4: Finding a place of service<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preparing and sharing resumes,
making contacts, answering ads, getting recommendations and writing cover letters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dealing with search committees,
what materials to ask for, what to provide, what questions to ask.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 5: Your first church<o:p></o:p></div>
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Be honest in evaluating
expectations: are you going to plant your life here or is it a “learning
church”? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lower your expectations of them,
raise them of yourself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hone your skills: preaching,
people, prayer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 6: Deacons<o:p></o:p></div>
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What they do, what they should be,
biblical qualifications, function in the church<o:p></o:p></div>
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How to get them on your side, how
to keep them focused<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rotation system vs. DFL (deacon for life)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 7: The Ordinances: Baptism<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ordinances are not sacraments, the
four essentials of scriptural baptism, whose baptism does the church recognize<o:p></o:p></div>
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How to baptize <o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 8: The Ordinances: Communion <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How to
serve, meaningful components<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 9: Church Discipline<o:p></o:p></div>
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The three grounds for church
discipline<o:p></o:p></div>
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How to practice discipline, the
circle of confession and the circle of knowledge <o:p></o:p></div>
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Restoration<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 10: Weddings<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Developing
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policy<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Premarital
counseling, the rehearsal, the ceremony<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 11: Funerals<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dealing with grief and bereavement,
visitation <o:p></o:p></div>
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Conducting the service, sermons, the
graveside<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 12: Leadership<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The top ten
mistakes leaders make (Finzel’s book)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 13: Personal Life<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maintaining a devotional life,
personal purity<o:p></o:p></div>
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Marriage, family, parenting your
children <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ten commandments for self and staff
members<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 14: Personal skills<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being a people person, making people
feel important <o:p></o:p></div>
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Overcoming introversion <o:p></o:p></div>
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Getting the most out of your time,
returning calls, thank you notes, keeping in touch, using social media for
communication<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 15: Leading through exposition<o:p></o:p></div>
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Developing a preaching plan <o:p></o:p></div>
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Using the Bible to move the church <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fostering a culture of generosity
and grace<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 16: Leading a church through change<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Changing
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The worship wars<o:p></o:p></div>
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Building projects, relocation, celebrating
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Session 17: Leading in church business<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 18: Church finances<o:p></o:p></div>
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Developing a church budget, the
pastor’s involvement in church finances<o:p></o:p></div>
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Giving, cooperative program, Lottie
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Church debt, capital campaigns<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 19: Working with staff <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Searching,
hiring, working with, leading, trusting, correcting, firing<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 20: Evangelism<o:p></o:p></div>
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Developing a missional spirit <o:p></o:p></div>
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Using evangelism training programs,
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Using holidays and special events<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mission trips and their purposes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Session 21: Miscellaneous matters<o:p></o:p></div>
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Integrity in accepting members from
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Allowing people to leave well</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197598588198399592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670352592222839233.post-33056620401428138242013-11-20T11:41:00.000-08:002013-11-20T11:41:05.218-08:00It's Not My Sermon, but He WAS My Student . . . <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an incredible sermon by Dr. Adam Dooley. Anyone who's suffering needs to know this truth.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/79449996" target="_blank">Dr. Adam Dooley preaches Job 2</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197598588198399592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670352592222839233.post-87873429263413513852013-11-02T13:12:00.000-07:002013-11-04T05:41:23.164-08:00Pure Religion and Undefiled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In response to the <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20131031/NEWS01/310310068/Baptist-children-s-agency-may-start-hiring-gays" target="_blank"><span id="goog_2076405871"></span>article<span id="goog_2076405872"></span></a> in the <i>Louisville Courier-Journal </i>and <a href="http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=41395" target="_blank">other media reports</a> that Dr. Bill Smithwick is asking the board of Sunrise Children's Services to consider hiring people who are gay to work in an agency of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, I wrote an op-ed piece for the <i>Western Recorder</i> and emailed it to Dr. Smithwick and all the members of the board. Here is the content of that article:<br />
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I am heartsick to think that Bill Smithwick would ask the
board of Sunrise Children’s Services to reverse their longstanding policy
against hiring practicing homosexuals to serve in an agency of the Kentucky
Baptist Convention. By even suggesting such an action, Mr. Smithwick has placed
himself outside the overwhelming majority of the churches and people who have
supported this ministry with their tithes and offerings given as unto the Lord.
Through a dozen years of lawsuits and legal challenges, the Baptists of the
Commonwealth have stood with Sunrise because the Biblical principles on which
that ministry was founded were not for sale. Now Mr. Smithwick is asking his
board to run up the white flag of surrender to the spirit of the age, all in
the name of doing ministry on our behalf. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the
board asked Kentucky Baptists for permission to drop “Baptist” from their name,
we were assured that nothing substantial would change and the ministry would
still reflect the gospel-centered and Christ-honoring values that had always
defined it. Now we are left feeling duped, misled, and possibly robbed of the
investment of generations of faithful people of God who were motivated to care
for children because of their belief in the Word of God. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I do not question Mr. Smithwick’s
love for children, but it would be immeasurably better to do what only we
Baptists can afford without the government than to capitulate our convictions
in order to get Caesar’s money. Separated from the gospel call to repentance
and faith in Jesus, we only make the world a better place to go to hell from.
When we assure the state that we will not “proselytize,” we promise a
Christless social ministry that feeds the body and starves the soul. When we bend
our beliefs to remain palatable to the culture or acceptable to the state, we
cease to follow a crucified Savior who counseled us that the world would do to
us what it did to Him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>James wrote
that pure and undefiled religion is to care for orphans and widows in their affliction,
but also “to keep oneself unstained from the world” (James 1:27). By
suggesting that we should compromise on the latter in order to do the former,
Mr. Smithwick has edited the inspired Word of God and is attempting to make
faithful Kentucky Baptists complicit in his revision. We must not sell our
birthright of God’s favor for a bowl of government contract pottage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the
board of Sunrise Children’s Services meets on November 8, their first order of
business should be to refuse to compromise the clear teaching of God’s Word as
suggested by Mr. Smithwick. Their second action should be to remove him as
director for even suggesting it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197598588198399592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670352592222839233.post-66399955083486677012013-10-29T12:50:00.002-07:002013-11-22T20:15:05.986-08:00Links to Sermons, Articles, and Posts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I hope to start writing on this blog again soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to post several things that I have done that appear elsewhere on the internet. Various sermons, lectures, interviews, and articles I've done are orbiting through cyberspace, so I thought I might aggregate them here for those who might find themselves looking for such things.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/74391941">For Such a Slime as This: Esther is Nobody's Hero</a><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/36412860">Why Can't You Be Like Your Brother? (Gen 38) Judah crashes Joseph's party</a><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/36545579">Written for Our Instruction (1 Cor 10) Paul's Use of the OT</a><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/20441833">Apologia Pro Morta Sua (A Defense of His Death): Joshua 8 and the Slaughter at Ai</a><br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/60101009" target="_blank">The Prayers We Don't Pray (but Jesus told us to)</a><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/20405524#t=1217s">The Dark Side of Grace: When Jesus Doesn't Show Up (John 11)</a><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/20702193#t=1383s">A Bloody Shame: Why God Tried to Kill Moses (Exodus 4)</a><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/61835357#t=1848s">A Word of Anxiety: The Suffering of Christ on the Cross</a><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/11361539">Do You Do Well? Jonah 4</a><br />
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<a href="http://buckrun.org/social.php">Buck Run audio sermons</a><br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buck-run-podcast-hershael/id311471110">The Buck Run Podcast</a><br />
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<a href="http://podgallery.org/buck-run-podcast-hershael/">Another way to get the Buck Run podcast</a><br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/76797830">Buck Run is moving!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.preachingtoday.com/connect/preachers/hershael-york.html">My sermons and articles on PreachingToday.com (you can get free access if you register--trust me, this site is worth it! Great stuff!)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sermoncentral.com/pastors-preaching-articles/hershael-york-a-preachers-voice-overworked-and-overlooked-1679.asp">The Preacher's Voice (article)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sermoncentral.com/pastors-preaching-articles/hershael-york-aim-for-the-ear-1580.asp">Don't Preach Like a Writer (Aim for the Ear!)</a><br />
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<a href="http://projecttgm.com/2013/03/your-babys-ugly/">Your Baby's Ugly! (Why do some preachers get better and others . . . ?)</a><br />
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<a href="http://fallenpastor.com/2013/10/24/interview-with-hershael-york-part-1-true-repentance-brokenness/">Interview with Ray Carroll at fallenpastor.com Part 1</a><br />
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<a href="http://fallenpastor.com/2013/10/25/hershael-york-interviewpt-2-ministry-failure-pornography-and-prevention/">Interview with Ray Carroll at fallenpastor.com Part 2</a><br />
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<a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2010/04/28/preaching-with-bold-assurance-an-interview-with-hershael-york/">Interview with Trevin Wax</a><br />
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