In the Facebook Group someone wanted a basic sermon construction formula. This is not the end all be all and hopefully you will move on from this to a full homiletic, but…
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The First Step To All Sermon Preparation
First Step… What is the Text Saying… Sometimes we jump to Commentaries… Sometimes we jump to dictionaries…
Guarantee Sermonic Improvement
Preaching is something that gets better with experience. But… What do you do when you aren’t preaching every week? How do you get better? Good question.
Yelling Ain’t Gonna Fix A Broken Sermon
“I don’t know what’s wrong, but it just didn’t feel right.” A middle aged man told a woman, presumably his wife, at a Christian book store. Yeah, I know, my wife tells…
Closing The Sermon With Power: Prerequisites
Closing The Sermon With Power Chapter 1: Prerequisites to a Powerful Close How do you end a sermon with power? You are asking this because innately you understand that no matter how…
Trusting Your Stuff: How to Know When Your Sermon is Ready
One question that often comes up is “When is my sermon ready to preach?” This is not an easy question to answer for a few reasons. One reason it is difficult is because some preachers never spend enough time in preparation. They allow the demands of ministry to overpower their need to preach effective sermons.
When Are You Finished Preparing Your Sermon?
This is another one of the most popular questions. Whenever I have a seminar or receive questions through the mail, someone asks, “How do I know my sermon is ready for preaching.”…
Follow Your Sermon Outline
I was critiquing a sermon for a client the other day who demonstrated a very common and real problem in his sermon construction. The preacher told me that he just couldn’t get…
Is My Sermon Done Yet?
Someone emailed me the following question I never know when my sermon is ready for preaching. I think I exegete the scripture adequately and spend a lot of time in sermon construction,…
Five Benefits of Sermon Planning
Many preachers have preached sermons that were not prepared from making use of sermon planning. Often the sermon lands us in Flunkersville and we resolve never to be in this position again….
Audio 26 – What Do You Need in Your Sermon?
What are five things you need in a sermon? Poor sermons break one of these important components of sermon construction and presentation.
Spirit or Mechanics? – Preaching the God’s Sermon
The Theocentric Preaching blog has a post up entitled Good homiletics does not always lead to good preaching
Preaching Sermons in the Black Tradition
Revised Edition of You Can Preach!
The totally rewritten revised edition of You Can Preach will be available in paperback in September, 2008.
This preaching manual provides aid in preparing and preaching effective sermons with information on exegesis, sermon construction, connecting with the congregation, and whooping. Here are the chapter titles:
- Introduction
- Finding a Text – How to find a text to preach
- Interpreting the Text For Preaching – The steps to exegete a text.
- Finding Theme and Purpose – Finding the reason for your sermon.
- Thinking about Conclusion, Title, and Introduction – Instruction on concluding, introducing, and giving a name to your sermon.
- Creating an Outline – How to create an outline using the “3 Points and a Poem,” Hagel’s Dialectic, or scripture created structure.
- Writing and Polishing the Sermon – How to edit your sermon before preaching.
- Whooping Description – An introduction to whooping, what it is, and why it is still needed.
- Whooping Theory and Practice – An introduction to whooping theory and a plan to integrate it into your preaching.
- Increasing Intensity – How to increase the intensity of your sermons.
- Connecting with the People – How to connect with the people in preaching.
- Using Black Folk Theology – There is some talk of using the so-called Black theology in preaching, here we look at using the “Black-folk” theology that helped black peoples through the difficult days of slavery and jim crow.
Stay tuned for more information on this important resource.
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Where to Begin – Learning About the Site!!!
- Seven Steps to a Great Sermon – A good starting point to understanding this site is to read the seven steps to a great sermon. In a couple of months we will release the ebook version of this resource.
- What is the Black Preaching Tradition – This is the first of many attempts to define what the Black Preaching Tradition is.
- Celebration – What is celebration in preaching?
- Black Preaching to Name God in Human Experience – We are told to match human experience to the Biblical text in preaching. This post talks about how to make sure that you address the wide variety of human experience.
- Blog – Visit our daily updating Blog to find more information of interest to preachers.
Learning to Preach – How To Put Together a Sermon!!!
- Finding a Text – The Steps to Finding a Text. The Text is the foundation of any effective sermon.
- Exegeting the Text – How to Exegete the Text. Here you will learn how to specifically understand the text. This is before writing the sermon.
- Structuring the Sermon – Here you will learn how to structure the sermon. Translate your exegesis into an effective sermon by reading these articles.
- Sermon Titles – You have a great sermon, how do you title it? Learn how from reading these articles.
- Preaching Without Notes – Do you want to preach without notes? Read these articles to learn the secrets of cutting loose from your notes.
- Whooping and Style – Black Preaching is about theology and style. Go to these articles to learn about Black preaching style and specifically whooping.
- Editing – How do you edit a sermon for preaching? Read these articles to find out.
Download Complete Sermons
- Sermon in Audio, text, and Video – Here are some sermons from the web pastor.
- Sermon Outlines – Here are some outlines provided by the web pastor.
SoulPreaching.Com Contributors
Sherman Haywood Cox II, M.S.
Elder Sherman Haywood Cox II is a Software professional and Master of Divinity student at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He holds the Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Sherman Cox’s posts can be found at this link.
Napoleon J. Harris V, M. Ed., M. Div
Minister Napoleon J. Harris is the Associate at Watson Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville, TN. He holds the M. Ed. from Tennessee State University and a M. Div from Vanderbilt Divinity School.
You can see Napoleon Harris’ posts at this link.
Do You Practice Style?
How many of you actually practice stylistic aspects of your message? Do you think that practice is something you should even do? Should all of our preparation time be spent in sermon construction?