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Put Your Main Point First to Improve Your Preaching
Keeping your preaching freshPut Your Main Point First to Improve Your Preaching We are learning from journalism how to improve our sermons. The first of the posts on this subject is at this link. In this post we will consider this tip from journalists: Put your main point first to improve your preaching for your hearers. The Introduction […]
Using Words Well Adds Force to Your Sermon
Keeping your preaching freshUsing Words Well Adds Force to Your Sermon We are considering what we can learn from journalism to improve our sermons. Here’s a link to the beginning of these reflections. We’ve seen that adding creativity makes your sermon more interesting and impactful. So does using a well-told story. In this post we are going to […]
A Well-Told Story Adds Creativity to Your Sermon
Keeping your preaching freshA Well-Told Story Adds Creativity To Your Sermon We are considering how to add creativity to our sermons. In the last post we looked at how to use a heuristic to find fresh ways to open our minds to new understandings of the developing message. In this post we consider how a well-told story adds […]
Becoming More Creative In Your Preaching
Keeping your preaching freshBecoming More Creative In Your Preaching In the previous posts we considered how to keep your preaching fresh. You can read the stream by connecting to the first post in the series here. In this post I want to take a slight detour from that. I’ve been reading about how journalists do their work, and […]
Engaging Other People Creates Freshness
Keeping your preaching freshEngaging Other People Creates Freshness in Preaching We are considering how to keep your preaching fresh. The first post in this series is In this post we’ll see how engaging other people creates freshness in preaching to your congregation. What Does “Engaging Other People” Mean? Let me give you an example from a recent sermon […]