OK, let’s get into some sermon philosophy. The question for today, “Can you write a sermon down?” You may think so, but I am not talking about whether to use a manuscript…
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Should I Write a Draft of my Sermon?
Preachers who preach from a full manuscript have no choice but to answer yes to the question. However what about those of us who preach from an outline or from even fewer notes? Must we prepare a full manuscript? This is a good question. I think that the benefits of preparing a full manuscript whether you use it or not far outweigh the liabilities. I want to describe a few of the benefits.
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Video Post – Components of Effective Sermon
What are the 3 components that you must have if you are to preach an effective sermon. And how are the three components related to each other?
Sermon Prep in the Shower
You know what…. I have said this before… But my sermon prep happens literally… EVERYWHERE… Sometimes I am practicing the sermon while driving to work… Yep…If you drive by me, you will…
Who Creates the Sermon?
Who creates a sermon? My homiletics professor, Dr. Brad Braxton, said, “You can’t write a sermon down because a sermon is an event.” You can’t write down an event. You can write…
The First Step To All Sermon Preparation
First Step… What is the Text Saying… Sometimes we jump to Commentaries… Sometimes we jump to dictionaries…
Simple Sermon Construction Method
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…
Who Creates A Sermon?
My homiletics professor, Dr. Brad Braxton, said, “You can’t write a sermon down because a sermon is an event.” You can’t write down an event. You can write down some notes that…
Sermon Prep 11 – Add The Celebrative Conclusion
Step 12…Get that celebration… OK, this took a lot longer than I thought it would… In about a month, I will go through these 12 steps again with one extended example. A…
Sermon Prep 10: Get An Introduction
Now…you have developed your points…you are ready to preach… Well… No… We still need two crucial components of the sermon. Today let’s look at one of them. You need to create an…
Sermon Prep Step 9: Fully Develop Points
I hope you all had a great Easter weekend. I was at a homecoming weekend in Huntsville Alabama. OK, folks…let’s go head and knock out the rest of this sermon process. Right…
Sermon Step 7: Get Your Points
Now… Let’s turn the page… You got your exegesis. Now let’s get ready to craft a sermon. Now there are a lot of ways to structure a sermon…
What Is A Sermon?
Now we are going to stop talking about exegesis. You should have a good handle on your text… Now we are going to talk about putting your sermon together… But before we…
Sermon Prep Step 6 – Emotional Exegesis
We are finishing up the exegesis section of our sermon prep… What you should realize is that interpreting the text is not a simple thing. And you can do a lot more…