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The Power Packed Sentence And The Sermon
Making It MemorableThe Power Packed Sentence And The Sermon I’m writing this week on a tactic I’m trying to improve in my preaching. The power packed sentence and the sermon is an important part of making a sermon memorable. I know this–in theory, at least. I wrote something similar a few years ago, when I wrote about […]
Attention Can Be A Fragile Thing
Grabbing AttentionAttention Can Be A Fragile Thing In the last couple of posts, we’ve been considering the reality that your congregation’s attention can be a fragile thing when you preach. Peoples’ minds quickly wander, and you can often tell it, leaving with you an uneasy feeling like they are off somewhere else in their imagination. So […]
Holding The Attention of People As You Preach
Grabbing AttentionHolding The Attention of People As You Preach In the last post we began a consideration of how to grab and hold peoples’ attention. This post is a continuation of that subject. We saw how asking questions and telling people how to respond can get them to “check in” to what you are saying. How […]
Grab Peoples’ Attention As You Preach
Grabbing AttentionGrab Peoples’ Attention As You Preach While I was in seminary I spent a summer in a church in Canada to get credit for “field work”. I preached every Sunday morning and evening for 12 weeks while in a medium-sized church in a medium-sized town. The first week there was a shock to me. You […]
Watch Your Language When You Preach
Top Preaching TipsWatch Your Language When You Preach In the last couple of posts we’ve looked at the Curse of Knowledge and how to overcome it. In this post we are going to consider one of the ways that you might become a victim of the curse of knowledge. You need to watch your language when you […]