by academyofpreachers | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Classic Articles, My AoP Story
by Kristina N. Heise, AoP’2012 The Academy of Preachers is the place where I discovered just how vast and profound God’s word is. The summer before I began seminary, I was given an amazing opportunity to attend an AoP preaching camp in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that...
by academyofpreachers | Jan 22, 2015 | Classic Articles, Uncategorized
Dwight A. Moody, President Academy of Preachers We have done six National Festivals (and many campus and regional festivals) but nothing was a good as Dallas! Wow! is all I can say, and all that many have said to me. It was surely a WOW event. Thanks to Highland Park...
by academyofpreachers | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Classic Articles, Ernest Brooks III, My AoP Story
By Ernest Brooks, AoP’11 Depending on whom you ask and what day it is, I’m either a preacher in love with the academy or an academic who can’t resist the magnetic pull of the pulpit. In either case, I am convinced that I was destined to become a part...
by academyofpreachers | Dec 31, 2014 | Blog, Classic Articles, My AoP Story
Name: Winterbourne LaPucelle Harrison-Jones, AoP’10 Title: Youth Pastor Emeritus, Mount Olivet Baptist Church of Rochester, NY Position: Graduate Fellow, The Lily Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI Christian Tradition or Denomination: American Baptist, National...
by academyofpreachers | Dec 30, 2014 | Classic Articles, My AoP Story
Deena Kuhl Donor Director of Resident Care, Renaissance Senior Communities Event Planner, 2010 National Festival of Young Preachers, Assisted 2011 and 2012 Baptist/Christian Southeast Christian Church The First Festival of Preachers began on a dreary and dismal day....
by academyofpreachers | Dec 30, 2014 | Blog, Classic Articles, My AoP Story
Andrew Boyd, AoP’13 Director of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry for the Orthodox Church in America National Festival of Young Preachers: 2013, 2014 and 2015 Christian Tradition: Eastern Orthodox Orthodox Church in America I’m Eastern Orthodox. I’m Eastern...
by academyofpreachers | Dec 28, 2014 | Classic Articles, Uncategorized
The best stories are the ones that find you… Dr. Joel Gregory must have been divinely inspired to preach those words early in the 2015 National Festival of Young Preachers. All 300 in attendance found ourselves in a dynamic unfolding of God’s good news. Good...
by academyofpreachers | Nov 4, 2013 | Blog, Classic Articles, Dwight A. Moody, Uncategorized
Dwight A. Moody, President, Academy of Preachers Christian people deserve to hear good sermons when we go to worship (or when we download something from the internet). We don’t need great sermons, except once in a long while. We hear too many poor or mediocre sermons...
by academyofpreachers | Jul 8, 2013 | Blog, Classic Articles, Gospel Catalyst, News, Preaching in your voice
One of Shakespeare’s most famous quotes comes from the character Polonius in Hamlet. He says “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” While I have never been a huge fan of this...
by academyofpreachers | Jul 1, 2013 | Blog, Classic Articles, Gospel Catalyst, News
There are fifty-two, sometimes fifty-three Sundays in a given calendar year. When I multiply the twenty-five years I have been alive by the approximately fifty-two sermons I listen to yearly, and adding any other conferences, camp meetings, sermons I view online, the...
