Steps to Learning to Whoop
Many people contact me wanting a step by step method to learn to whoop, here is the outline of a method.
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Last Minute Sermon Idea…Look at the Text Differently
Ok…It is late and you need a sermon. You look at the text and you only see what you always see. What can you do? A simple tip provided by Charles Koller in the book How to Preach Without Notes might help.
Different Angles
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A Basic Sermon Model – Three Points and a Poem
One of the most persistent models of preaching has been termed “Three points and a Poem.” What it means is that the preacher makes three points and then ends with a poem. Some preachers have termed the same sermon method as “Three points and a celebration.”
Frederick Haynes’ Stories – Improving Your Preaching
I make a habit of listening to Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas Texas. Dr. Haynes incorporates stories into his preaching very effectively. These stories are gleaned from various sources.
Finding Stories
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Preaching from First Naivete to Second Naivete
The next pattern in Ronald Allen’s book entitled Preaching Patterns is the Moving from First Naivete’ through Critical Reflection to Second Naivete’. The idea comes from the hermeneutical theorist Paul Ricoeur. Here the sermon takes three steps.
First Naivete’
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To Whoop or Not To Whoop – Musicality in Black Preaching
Whooping is one of the components of the Black Preaching Tradition that grabs the attention of many congregates and preachers.
To Whoop or Not To Whoop – Musicality in Black Preaching Read MoreThree Layers of Justice Preaching
The Eco Justice Ministries website has a post up entitled Three Layers of Environmental Preaching.
The author of the post is specifically talking about preaching on the Environment, but one can easily adapt the discussion to such issues as Racism, Classism, or other issues that might be a problem in your particular parish.
Issues Preaching
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Preaching Patterns – Moves and Structures
The next preaching pattern is David Buttrick’s “Plot’s and Moves” pattern for sermon construction. What is interesting about his methodology is that he conceives of the preaching task as preaching not to “individuals” neither to “groups of individuals”, but to a community.
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The next pattern from Ronald Allen’s book Patterns for Preaching is Paul Scott Wilson’s approach described in his book The Four Pages of the Sermon The sermon under this structure is a manuscript with four distinct pages. Each page is a different approach to the materials.
Four Pages of a Sermon Read MoreMead Method for Preaching Without Notes
Peter Mead over at Biblical Preaching has a series going on Preaching without notes that I referred to in this post. In his first post he described why preaching without notes is a valuable method.
In the second post which can be found here, Mead emphasizes the HOW. Mead’s method can be summed up in one word, “internalization.”
What You will say not How You will say it
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7 Steps to a Good Sermon or How To Create and Preach a Sermon
I am writing this to include in the Problogger.net How To Group Writing Project. At this link you can find a number of Bloggers giving “how to’s” on a ton of subjects…
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