We’ve looked at the important issues in voice and non-verbals over recent days. Both of these have to reinforce and support the work being done by your words when you preach. But before we move on, just a couple of comments on the verbal aspect of delivery . . . the words you choose to [...]
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Visual Variations – Part 2
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In thinking about the 3 V’s of delivery, we have looked at the voice (vocal) and are in the midst of the visual (non-verbals). Yesterday we considered the supreme issue of eye-contact (watch a video of yourself if you don’t believe me when I say you probably don’t look at your congregation as much as [...]
Visual Variations
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, tagged Bert Decker, Expository Preaching, Hershael York, Non-Verbal, Visual Communication on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we gave some thought to the vocal variations needed for effective delivery. Today let’s remind ourselves of some aspects of visual delivery – the non-verbals that are so powerful. The key here is for the visual (non-verbals) and the vocal to work together with the verbal (words) to make the communication consistent and impactful. [...]
Vocal Variations
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching, Preaching Voice, Use of Voice, Vocal, Vocal Delivery on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Delivery of a message is a complex issue. While this shouldn’t create tensions in us that distract from working hard on content (Bible study, pastoral awareness, prayer, message shaping, etc.), we do need to give some thought to how we deliver a sermon. Delivery consists of three elements – the verbal (words used), the visual [...]
Non-Sermon Specific Feedback
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching, Preaching Feedback, Sermon Feedback on June 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It is healthy and helpful to get feedback on your preaching. Sometimes you might pursue this by asking several people to fill out an evaluation of a sermon preached. Perhaps you ask for specific feedback on handling of the text, or aspects of delivery that you are working on, etc. Another approach is to form [...]
Keep Looking
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, New Testament, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Expository Preaching, Textual Outline on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Observation does not work in haste. It takes time to keep looking at something and really see it. I’m told that you cannot get the best out of an art gallery by rushing around and taking mental snapshots (my default approach). I know that neither can you get the best out of a Bible passage [...]
Preaching Curriculum
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, tagged Curriculum, Explosive Preaching, Ron Boyd-MacMillan, Seminary Curriculum on May 27, 2009 | 29 Comments »
We all have our unique interests. One of mine is curricula. I love looking at the curricula of Bible schools, or helping to think through new possibilities for Bible schools (perhaps adding a second year to a one year program, etc.) So perhaps it is only me that would enjoy the last of the chapters [...]
Is It Wrong to Desire Influence?
Posted in Christianity, Delivery, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Martin Luther King, Billy Graham, Explosive Preaching, Ron Boyd-MacMillan, MLK, Robert Schuller on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Most chapters in Explosive Preaching prompt me to think of several posts. Hopefully Boyd-MacMillan will forgive my leaning on his book for ideas so often in recent weeks in exchange for my encouragement to others to buy it for themselves. Chapter 28 in the book is a chapter that stands out as unlike anything I’ve [...]
How Would Jesus Preach?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Explosive Preaching, Jesus’ Preaching, Ron Boyd-MacMillan on May 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have been impressed and helped by Explosive Preaching (written by Ron Boyd-MacMillan). I’ll share a couple more highlights and then finish with a final review of the book.
Near the end of the book, MacMillan shares some tips for effective preaching from the example of Jesus. I won’t go into detail in my words or [...]
When Listeners Aren’t Satisfied
Posted in Audience Analysis, Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Explosive Preaching, Ron Boyd-MacMillan on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Preaching is complex. Take, for example, the matter of listener satisfaction. If they aren’t satisfied, it could be a good sign, or a bad sign. Likewise having everyone happy may mean something is wrong. So how do we navigate the issue of listener satisfaction, after all, dissatisfaction expressed is seldom water [...]
What If You’re Not Ready?
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, Stage 3 - Passage Purpose, Stage 4 - Passage Idea, tagged Expository Preaching on May 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It is so important to understand the text before you preach it! I don’t mean just knowing what the big words mean. I don’t mean just having a collection of exegetical insights to share. I don’t mean even having a sermon vaguely based on certain parts of the text. I mean really understanding what the [...]
The World’s Most Influential People
Posted in Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preacher's Personal Life, Preaching, Religion, tagged Expository Preaching, Time Magazine on May 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sitting on my desk is a recent copy of Time Magazine. The main reason that I still get it is that they offered to almost pay me to receive it (that’s an exaggeration, before you start asking for details). It is the edition with the world’s 100 most influential people. Interesting collection of people from [...]
Five Looks and Two Options
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Andrew Reid, Bible study, Expository Preaching, Ridley College on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post is building on the previous two. Yesterday I shared “Five Looks” approach to Bible study to illustrate a discussion on Monday’s post. The issue raised on Monday was do we preach the main thought of a text, or a biblical theology prompted by the main thought of a text? The question really focuses [...]
Look Look Look Look Look
Posted in Christianity, Homiletics, How to . . . ?, Preaching, Religion, Stage 2 - Passage Study, tagged Andrew Reid, Bible study, Five Looks, Inductive Bible Study, Ridley College on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Perhaps you have come across the “Five Looks” approach to Bible study? It is a clear and helpful approach credited to Andrew Reid of Ridley College, Melbourne. Here is a brief synopsis:
1. Look Up – We need to receive the Bible as the word of God. This implies a commitment to prayer and faith.
2. Look [...]
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