Polishing the Pulpit is an annual lectureship directed by preachers for preachers. Many of the brotherhood's greatest teachers come every year to lecture on subjects ranging from improving a minister's family life, edification of the brotherhood, how to serve better, and many other topics. In 2008, Polishing the Pulpit was held in Sevierville, TN, and included classes for preachers, elders, deacons, women, youth workers, and members. For more information about PTP, visit Polishing the Pulpit.
There were 30 lessons delivered for elders in 2009. The cost for individual volumes is $25. The complete set of all 30 is $60.
This volume contains the following lessons:
- George Bailey - Whose Responsibility Is It?
- Curtis Cates - How to Get Through Periods of Unrest
- Curtis Cates - The Preacher Shortage: Encouraging Members to Preach and Keeping a Minister in the Pulpit
- Gary Hampton - Evaluating Yourself as an Elder: Watch for Frustration, Faultfinding, Cynicism, Doubt, and Fear
- Gary Hampton - How to Lead so People Will Follow
- Gary Hampton - How to Set a Good Church Budget
- Tom Holland - A Final Charge: Great Is Your Reward in Heaven!
- Tom Holland - Shining the Shoes of the Shoeshine Man
- Tom Holland - The Importance of Compassion, Patience, and Longsuffering
- Matt Vega - Recent Court Cases Within the Churches of Christ