Q&A | how do you decide themes for your preaching?

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this week join John Mark Comer, Jon Tyson, and Jefferson Bethke as they answer a great question on picking themes for your preaching and how to know when to pull an audience to that topic, or leave it behind. Also as mentioned in the episode, we'd love to have you join us this year in person in Nashville for our conference, or Vermont or Maui for our retreats and workshops. You can read more about those and signup here.

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