Coaching for Preachers
All preachers can benefit from someone who helps them discover or recover their unique, God-given voice for preaching. We need someone to point out strengths we don’t even realize we possess. Of course, we also want someone who can guide us in pinpointing and overcoming deficiencies, so we connect at a deeper level with listeners. A preaching coach can help you maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses in your quest to faithfully preach the Gospel!
“Dr. Luchetti understands that preaching is not merely about good speaking skills or providing helpful and inspiring teaching – although he is excellent at coaching these aspects. Preaching also is communing with the Holy Spirit so that God’s Word flows through you into the souls of others, transforming them. It is this partnership between the Holy Spirit and the preacher that Lenny helps foster, while simultaneously giving practical insight on how to stay connected to your congregation.”
Tamar Eisenmann, Caring Community Church
CONSULtinG
Dr. Luchetti has been serving as a consultant to churches and staff teams for more than 20 years. His specialty areas include:
- Developing a Strategic Plan for Missional Impact
- Building a Healthy Staff Culture
- Getting Your Board and Staff on Mission Together
- Creating an Effective Teaching Team.
Whether you have in mind a one day event or overnight retreat, we can work with your schedule. If you’d like Dr. Luchetti to consult with you and your team, please click on the link and complete the form. Someone will be in touch with you asap.
“Lenny is a great preacher *and* teacher. He inspires, equips, supports, challenges. Recommended!”
Dr. Aaron Perry
Books
Overcoming Spiritual Slump (Seedbed, Spring 2021)
These are challenging times when the Christian’s appetite to be with God through prayer and Scripture, and to live for God through trust and obedience, diminish like air slowly leaking from a tire. You are vulnerable to old temptations you thought were in the past and new ones that pop up like moles you’re not fast enough to whack!
You are not alone, even though few have the language or the courage to talk about their struggle. You are not stuck, even though you feel neck deep in mud. There is a way out of the staleness, the stagnancy, the slump! God has given us tools for overcoming the slump that can make our lives more vibrant and meaningful than before we even got stuck.
Preaching with Empathy: Crafting Sermons in a Callous Culture (Abingdon Press, Fall 2018)
Preachers can find help from many resources to get the text right, the structure right, and the delivery right. Preaching with Empathy aims to help preachers and homiletics students learn to deeply understand and love their listeners, in order to get preaching right.
Preachers who profess a love for God, Scripture, and preaching, but who lack loving empathy for the listener, betray their three professed loves and limit their fruitfulness in ministry. This book teaches how to practice preaching in new ways, incorporating a heightened awareness and empathy for the people in the preacher’s community.
True Depth: Moving Beyond Cultural Churchianity (Wesley Press, August 2015)
Many of us sincerely wade around in what church culture popularly defines as discipleship. But we are discontent with only splashing about in the miles-wide, ankle-deep shores of faith.
If we look to the horizon of history, of the Gospels and the early church, we can see wonderful mystery out there. We sense there must be more to spiritual formation than mere performance, study, and the gaining of knowledge.
*Preaching Essentials: A Practical Guide (Wesley Press, May 2012)
Preaching Essentials offers new and seasoned preachers a comprehensive, practical perspective on preaching to a new generation. Short, easy-to-read chapters cover topics like the rationale for preaching, importance of context, process of preparation, mechanics of presentation, discipline of planning, and development of a growth plan. Luchetti offers plenty of fresh insights–like using story, imagination, and mind-mapping–and suggests new habits that can reenergize your preaching.
*Recognized as one of the best books on preaching by Outreach Magazine and Preaching Magazine.
“Lenny has a passion for preaching that will inspire you to take the next step in your relationship with Christ and at the same time help you to become a better preacher.”
Rev. Zack Langford
Pastor, Garrison Hills Wesleyan Church, Battle Creek, MI