Preaching without notes is not a brain dump.

In the book Preaching Without Notes Joseph Webb provides some thoughts that one should keep in mi

At this link you will find a bunch of sermon titles connected to the scripture. Some are not bad, some are terrible, some are bizarre. I find that looking at sermon titles can help to rejuvinate the creative juices. It might help you, but be careful, some are absolutely terrible, for example:

1. PIMPOLOGY – Purpose In My Pain – 2 Corinthians 11:23-30
2. I’m So Sick of Frogs I Could Croak! – Exodus 8:12-14
   

I appreciate questions when they come in and try to answer them as best I can. So far I have had enough time to help all who have requested it. If you have a question please use the contact form. Someone sent in a question asking for help in the creation of a sermon title for a sermon based on the transition between David and Solomon. Here is my response to him.

I was reading the Biblical Preaching blog and Peter Mead had a post up on Sermon Titles. That got me to thinking about sermon titles again. As I have noted in the past, the subject of Sermon Titles is not talked about in the literature as much as it should be, in my opinion. So Mead got me to thinking. Why is a title important?

Peter Mead over at Biblical Preaching has a series going on Preaching without notes that I referred to in this post. In his first post he described why preaching without notes is a valuable method.

In the second post which can be found here, Mead emphasizes the HOW. Mead’s method can be summed up in one word, “internalization.”

What You will say not How You will say it

Sermon Titling is something that some consider to be irrelevant while others consider it to be very important. Sermons in the Black Preaching Tradition are often known to be titled well. Sometimes a great title will evoke praise or contemplation from the congregation before the sermon even begins. Because of this I have spent a little time thinking about titles. You can find interesting posts on sermon titles on this website here.

Brian Mavis has an article up on sermon title creation at this link. Mavis illustrates the importance of title by noting that the same book under different titles have had much different sales figures. Titles are very important. With that in mind one wonders why so little is written in homiletics texts on this subject. While I am by no means an expert, i have written on the subject in a few posts on this particular site.

Among our most popular posts are the ones on Sermon Titles. There is just not that much information in book form or on the web on the issue. However, one might be able to learn from other people who have to title something. The other day I found this site that talks about titling a book.

I have written a method on sermon titles. After it I found this video by Bishop C. D. Miller who talks about how to create a sermon title. One thing that my method and hers has in common is the looking for a “mantra” or “repetitive statement” that contains the whole sermon. She also takes the “action” portion of the scripture under consideration.