preaching to a bored audience

Make Your Message Interesting

Make Your Message Interesting You have to make your message interesting if you want it to be memorable. I've mentioned this many times before in this blog, as you can see from this post on illustrations, or this one on keeping your message…
hitting the target

Make One Point

One Point Preaching John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy was one of the great speakers in the history of the United States. People still study…

It's About Jesus

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In my last post, I listed three goals, or destinations for your sermon: to get knowledge into your hearers' heads, to get Christ-like living into their hearts, and to inspire them in difficult times.…

An Intriguing Question Makes a Good Introduction

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We are considering how to "hook" people with good introductions to our messages. We've seen so far that a story will accomplish that. So will a shocking statement. Today we are exploring the fact that an intriguing…

Shocking Truth Makes a Good Introduction

The in the last post, we began to look at the subject of the introduction to a sermon. We saw that a good story captures peoples' attention, and then serves as the gateway into the message itself. Today we are…

Introductions Are More Important Than You Think

In the next series of posts we are going to look at how you go about developing a sermon. I will assume that you have done the basic work referred to earlier in this blog, things like defining the main point of a passage,…