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How To Make A Visionary Sermon
New Maps For Sermon WritingHow To Make a Visionary Sermon We have been considering how to use some new maps, or organizing principles for your sermon. Here’s the first post in this series. Below is the image that lists the various kinds of maps that are discussed in Kenton Anderson’s book, Choosing To Preach. In this post we are going […]
How To Make A Narrative Sermon
New Maps For Sermon WritingHow To Make A Narrative Sermon We’ve been considering some “new maps” or different ways to think of organizing your sermon. The first in this series of posts is here. In today’s post we are going to consider how to make a narrative sermon that sings. Here is the image I’ve been working […]
How To Make A Pragmatic Sermon
New Maps For Sermon WritingHow To Make A Pragmatic Sermon Last time we looked at how to make an argumentative, or declarative sermon. In today’s post we will look at the next “map” for a sermon, as delineated in Kenton Anderson’s book, Choosing to Preach. How to make a pragmatic sermon is the topic. Hopefully, you remember this division of […]
How To Make An Argumentative Sermon
New Maps For Sermon WritingHow To Make An Argumentative Sermon You may have read that title and thought that this was going to be a post about getting the better of all those people in your audience that don’t agree with you. That’s not what this is about! This topic, how to make an argumentative sermon for your church, […]
Getting An Updated Map for Your Sermon
New Maps For Sermon WritingGetting An Updated Map for Your Sermon In the next several posts we are going to look at the subject of getting an updated map for your sermon preparation and presentation. The Need For An Updated Map Several years ago my wife and I were traveling from our home in Michigan to St. Louis to […]