Looking Like Your Audience
We turn now from considering the use of humor in your sermons, as in these last few posts, to a consideration of something most preachers learn the hard way. Looking like your audience is important. If you don't,…
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Guidelines For Using Humor In A Sermon
This will be the last post in this series on humor in a sermon. The previous posts begin here. In this post we'll develop some guidelines for using humor in a sermon that will help you in the use of…
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Humor Can Make A Hard Truth Hit Home
We are looking at humor in sermons in this series of posts. Today we are going to see that humor can make a hard truth hit home for your listeners.
A Hard Truth Hits Home
In his book, Preaching Nuts…
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Using Humor Makes Your Sermon Memorable
Using humor makes your sermon memorable for your audience. Think about the last good joke you heard in a sermon. Didn't it catch your attention? Didn't it make you ready to listen to what came next?…
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Great Sermons Reflect Practice
The past series of posts dealt with illustrations. Now we turn to the key to moving your sermon from good to great: practice. Great sermons reflect practice by the one delivering it.
Car Buyers' Remorse
I…
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Finding Illustrations Useful for Preaching
We've been considering the art of illustration your sermons. You'll find the first post in the series here. In this post we look at how to go about finding illustrations useful for preaching impact…
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Final Reasons to Use Illustrations Effectively
We are considering the reality in the past few posts that illustrations will make your sermons better. In this post, we look at the final reasons to use illustrations effectively in your sermons.
Personal…
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More Reasons to Plan Effective Illustrations
The last post in this blog listed several reasons to put your energy, time and creativity into planning effective illustrations for your messages. In this post we will look at more reasons to…
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Why You Need Good Illustrations
The last several posts have been about the 6 levels of illustration, with an emphasis on using the first 4 levels and avoiding the last 2. In this post we are going to consider why you need good illustrations…
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Watch Out For This Kind of Illustration
In the last few posts we have considered various kinds of illustrations according to the guidelines developed by Haddon Robinson. Then we illustrated the first four levels of illustration. We now…
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Looking Like Your Audience
Top Preaching TipsGuidelines For Using Humor In A Sermon
Humor In Your MessageHumor Can Make A Hard Truth Hit Home
Humor In Your MessageUsing Humor Makes Your Sermon Memorable
Humor In Your MessageGreat Sermons Reflect Practice
Top Preaching TipsFinding Illustrations Useful for Preaching
Effective IllustrationsFinal Reasons To Use Illustrations Effectively
Effective IllustrationsMore Reasons To Plan Effective Illustrations
Effective IllustrationsWhy You Need Good Illustrations
Effective IllustrationsWatch Out For This Kind of Illustration
Effective Illustrations