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Keith Mannes

Keith A. Mannes (office@highlandcrc.org) is the pastor of Highland Christian Reformed Church in Marion, Michigan.

Articles by this author:

  • Get That Dead Thing Off the Pulpit

    Four Ways to Breathe Life into Your Sermons
    By Keith Mannes
    December 2010

    There on the pulpit, my sermon was dead. Again. It was just too much: too heavy, too complicated, too cumbersome. It had given up its Holy Ghost. But I carried it up there to preach anyway. The truth is, after twenty years of preaching, I got lost for a while, and I preached a lot of roadkill.

    For the sake of my soul and for the souls of my hearers, I’ve identified three forces from within and without that were killing my sermons before God made me able to breathe life into them again.