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Listening To The Listeners
Top Preaching TipsListening to Listeners Haddon Robinson taught preaching for many years at Denver Theological Seminary. The title for this post is the title of one of the chapters in his book, Making a Difference in Preaching. Listening to listeners is one of the keys to preaching more effectively to your particular audience. What do you think of […]
The Story Sermon
kinds of sermonsThe Story Sermon There’s one more kind of sermon that I want to explore before we leave our review of the various types of sermons that we can put in our preaching tool belt. (Again, if you are new to this blog, the first in this series of reflections on kinds of sermons is linked […]
Variety In Preaching
kinds of sermonsVariety in Preaching So, if you’ve been reading this blog regularly, we’ve just completed a series on the various kinds of sermons that can be preached. Here’s a link to the first in the series. Today we turn to a related question: “What kinds of sermons do I schedule over a period of time?” If […]
Teach Your People Well
kinds of sermonsPreaching as Teaching In this post we are going to explore what it means to teach as a preacher. Teach your people well in some, if not most of your sermons. A little girl called Martha was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow […]
Speaking About Important Things
kinds of sermonsSpeaking About Practical Things We are on an adventure to discover what preaching is, as we explore the various words in the New Testament that refer to preaching. In the last post we examined what it means to preach the gospel. Today we consider the word laleo (transliterated Greek), which is mostly translated as “to speak”. […]