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 Preaching Skills: The Art & Craft of Biblical Preaching: 2005
Investing in quality, not quantity
Questions you ask yourself now may save your sermon later
Taking a clear picture of your preaching requires both wide-angle and zoom lenses The Agony and Ecstasy Of Feedback What sermon evaluations taught me
How to invite a constructive critique. From B.C. to 11 a.m. How to preach an Old Testament narrative with accuracy and power
How the text can form the sermon
How to choose a sermon Style that helps hearers experience the truth
How to preach so everyone understands
How to choose between inductive and deductive logic
Evaluate yours with four questions
How to rely on stories to carry spiritual freight
I needed to move from principle to plot No Voice, No Preach Safeguarding and improving your voice Eliminating My Um, Um, Annoying Pulpit Mannerisms I can't let personal quirks get in the way of the message
Overcoming things that defuse sincere passion
How a sermon gives worth to the soul Rightly Dividing the Preaching Load The benefits of developing a preaching team, and how one church is seeing it work Why I Pace Before I Preach Understanding the weekend panic
Every faithful preacher must sometimes raise controversy The Patented Preacher Every preacher is a limited edition of one Preaching Through Personal Pain If you have a crisis, should your sermons discuss it?
You've got to reignite the flames Sunday after Sunday Self-Disclosure That Glorifies Christ Transparent preaching aims to reveal the light, not the window Conviction and Compassion It takes both toughness and tenderness to rescue people from sin Illustrating with Integrity and Sensitivity 7 questions for staying above reproach
Having to speak doesn't always mean you have something to say Heart-to-Heart Preaching How to tap authentic emotions, both yours and the listeners' My Worst and Best Sermons Ever How I was set free from the need to judge my preaching
How to scratch where people niche
Many feel like overwhelmed failures
Mastering five overlooked fundamentals of clear communication
Preaching to skeptics Turning an Audience into the Church Transforming consumers into the committed Preaching Truth, Justice, and the American Way On cultural myths and biblical authority
And connect with what may be the largest half of your congregation.
Adapting to gender
What we can learn from two pastors-Bonhoeffer and Thielicke-who ministered in terrible times Redemptive Sermons for Weddings and Funerals When the sermon is the last thing on your hearers' minds, how to preach in a way that changes lives The Science of Surveys Styleal procedures lead to more objective results
The call to preach demands our very best
Connecting with Men How to preach to the tattooed Creating a Singles-Friendly Sermon How to preach to 40 percent of today's adults Preaching to Preschoolers A children's sermon is a time to feed their imaginations, not their egos Hispanic American Preaching African American Preaching Asian American Preaching
How to deliver one sermon at two completely different services The Playful Preacher Using humor and irony
How to bridge the credibility gap
How to talk to people about themselves
The spirit of a message is like the tune of a song Faithful First The better we understand the text, the more trenchant can be our preaching
How asking the right questions produces a wealth of relevant material for the sermon The Rules of the Game Seven steps to proper interpretation
Scripture can speak for itself Fundamentals of Genre How literary Style affects the interpretation of Scripture The Big Idea of Narrative Preaching What are the clues to interpreting a story? Critique of the New Homiletic Examining the link between the New Homiletic and the New Hermeneutic
Why everybody-including your Sunday audience-loves a mystery
Why some illustrations work better than others Overexposure Transparent preaching is not without risks Footnotes in the Pulpit How to credit your sources without distracting your hearers
How to avoid talking in someone else's sleep
How to speak so listeners can't forget Teaching the Whole Bible Six reasons to do expository preaching Making the Most of Biblical Paradoxes They offer a refreshing, and deeper, alternative to "how to" sermons When Is a Sermon Good Enough? Sometimes you wish you'd had more time to prepare
I can't imagine preaching without my electronic research assistant and sermon coach
Paul's example is bold, courageous proclamation
How can you blow the whistle when people don't believe there are rules?
Elevating Christ in a culture that sees all religions as equal
What is the eternal purpose in this weekly exercise in elocution?
How to capitalize on the inexhaustible riches of Scripture in your preaching without sounding like a Bible commentary.
Planting this church, I spent a year preaching through Leviticus, and (surprise!) it worked Apply Within A method for finding the practical response called for in a text
It's when we're applying Scripture that error most likely creeps in.
Principles of effective introductions
Principles of effective conclusions
This self-test can help you understand your gifting as a preacher Verse-by-Verse Sermons That Really Preach While God is certainly in the details, he is uniquely and stirringly at work in the organic flow of ideas What Makes Textual Preaching Unique? And how do we use this sermon Style, with its great rhetorical potential, biblically?
How to take full advantage of the unique strengths of series preaching First Person Narrative Sermons Taking advantage of the power of drama and the pull of story
An Interview with Greg Laurie
How prayer brings authority
When listeners are starving for a meal, creativity is what ensures there will be more than a recipe
It's not about taking down other gods, but raising up our own
Harnessing the power of economy
The pros and cons of extemporaneous and manuscript delivery In the Eye of the Hearer Visuals that support rather than distract from the Word Preaching the Terrors When your text is bad news
Brimstone for the broad-minded
What does it take to convince people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ?
A clear word at the right time can keep the church from pulling apart
How to preach social trends and topics with wisdom
Speaking about sex clearly and redemptively
In an age of divorce and remarriage, how can you preach graciously about lifelong commitment?
It's all in your approach
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