By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:17:57 +0000

hi there, I’m new-ish to this whole blogging thing! I’ve just written a blog on my attempt to help me improve the effectiveness of my sermon preparation time and general resource collecting. I’d really value your comments over at theologising.info

By: Dan Turner

Dan Turner — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:03:59 +0000

IF we do not prepare we will surely fail. I am a school teacher and a public speaker. If I do not prepare my talks in advance and think them through I do fail and the audience loses interest. Any preacher is really a public speaker at the core and they need to keep their finger on the pulse of good public speaking and brain based learning so that they can effectively teach the people they are charged with caring about. It is sad but so many leave seminary and just go and give boring talks about subjects that bare little interest to the flock. Howard Gardner should be required reading in all seminaries so that preachers can reach out to people in more ways and not follow the failing of teachers who just lecture and bore people to death. Use of video, Power Point, charts, graphs, humor, and stories are -powerful tools for reaching peoples hearts and minds for Christ. Wake up if you are just sitting and developing speeches for a congregation. Try something new and watch how they come alive and get involved. Learn to read your audience. Take an acting class or four to make your presentation come alive.

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By: Adam

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