In Delivering the Sermon Teresa Fry Brown introduces preachers to the effective use of voice and body in the animation of the word in the preaching moment. Combining the latest research in communications, speech pathology, and homiletics with her own experience as a speech-language pathologist, Fry Brown creatively empowers preachers to improve their effectiveness in proclamation. Practical suggestions and exercises for enhancing voice, diction, and nonverbal engagement of the listener, useable by groups or individuals, are included in each chapter.
This bestselling text by Haddon Robinson, considered by many to be the "teacher of preachers," has sold over 300,000 copies and is a contemporary classic in the field.
A Guide to Effective Sermon Delivery discusses the mechanical, mental, rhetorical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of sermon delivery in the interest of improving the effectiveness of preaching.
The preacher who desires to receive the Spirit's illumination through the study of God's Word cries out, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” Through God's Word the Spirit speaks, and he teaches us through the tense of a verb ...
Moves beyond the basics of public speaking and addresses the foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon.
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), 183. 2. Keith Willhite, “A Bullet versus Buckshot: What Makes the Big Idea Work?” in The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching, ed. Keith Willhite and Scott M. Gibson (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998), 14. 3.
Fully revised edition of the classic guide to the art of homiletics incorporates recent helpful developments in the field.
Chapter one establishes a seven-fold approach-the Disciplers' Model-to Christian teaching. This model was developed in response to a question that would not let the author go-'How should I teach so that my learners will grow in the Lord?'
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into a predetermined mold, but he contends that “we are called to preach the gospel, not a text or what one defines ... Properly understood in its context, the preacher is calling people to live humbly and fully under God's sovereignty.
In this book, you also will find answers to the ten most commonly asked questions about sermon delivery, exercises to add depth to your preaching, and tools to help you evaluate your communication skills--everything you need to add power ...