That'll Preach! 5 Simple Steps to Your Best Sermon Ever
Ebook
Overview
Experienced preacher, teacher and author, Charley Reeb, gives readers a 5-step plan for writing and delivering a sermon that can transform lives for Christ. He covers preparation, sermon structure, storytelling, and how to ‘preach with presence’. He examines lectionary and topical preaching models, and shows the reader how to determine which model to use; he further instructs the reader to use the 5-step plan for each model. Finally, That’ll Preach! offers sermon outlines and full sermons, as examples to illustrate the book’s teaching.
The entire book stems from the author’s view that sermons must be engaging in order to be effective. This laser focus results in a book that is powerful and immediately useful, concise and purposeful. It is a book for every preacher.
Offers a simple process and a ‘secret’ technique for great preaching.
Key features of this book are its length and writing style. It will not be a huge textbook on preaching nor will it read like one. This short book is written in an engaging conversational style.
This book also provides practical step by step instruction on how to put together a sermon using a simple five step method.
There are several examples and samples in the book that show the reader exactly how the process works.
Another key feature is the inherent theme of the book. It draws in the reader from the very beginning. After all, who doesn t want to know a secret?
This book lays out a simple five step process of putting together a sermon that is engaging, inductive, expository and deductive. In other words, this method is a synthesis of all the strong aspects of key preaching theories in homiletics but without the complexity and confusion.
Another benefit is that having an engaging sermon structure for preachers to hang their hat on will save valuable time in preparation.
Another key benefit of this book is that unlike most books on preaching this book will provide practical advice on effective rhetorical techniques and critical aspects of storytelling.
Top Highlights
“create anticipation by introducing tension, mystery, or conflict and promising to relieve it, solve it, or resolve it.” (source)
“Think of questions, struggles, and experiences that will create a desire in your listeners to want to know your point.” (source)
“ key motivators that engage people: money, family, safety, health, and community” (source)
“exactly what I would like to hear!’ These speakers are typically” (source)
“There’s no sense saying more if it means they’ll hear less.’2” (source)
Product Details
- Title : That'll Preach!: 5 Simple Steps to Your Best Sermon Ever
- Author: Reeb, Charley
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9781501835483