How You Talk Makes A Difference It is a well-known principle in public speaking that how you talk makes a difference in how people listen. We have been exploring, in the past few posts, what we can learn from television productions that will help our preaching. The first post in the series is here, if […]
How You Talk When You Preach I remember well my first week in seminary. I was overwhelmed with a lot of homework on subjects that I had little exposure to up to that point in my life. There were 3 hour classes, too. And I realized that I didn’t know the lingo well. In fact, […]
Grab Their Attention If you are new to this blog, know that we have been looking at what we can learn from television that will improve our preaching. You can catch up by reading the posts that begin with this one. We looked at the fact that television is very intentional about knowing the audience, […]
Choosing Your Target Audience In the immediately previous posts we’ve been looking at things we can learn from television that will improve our preaching. One of the things television does well is to target a certain audience. So, how do you figure out who to target? In this post we’re going to explore how […]
Who Are You Talking To? In the last couple of posts we have been exploring what we can learn from the way people in television produce their programs. We’ve seen that television is king in our culture; it is where people get their news, and how they form their ideas of right and wrong. In […]
Focus On Your Audience You need to focus on your audience as you preach; that’s the lesson of today’s post. However, if you are going to do this well, you need to know who your audience is. To whom do you preach? In a previous post on this blog I made the point that we […]
Television Is King In the last post on this website I introduced the topic of what we can learn from television that can help our preaching. Stop preaching and start communicating was our theme. In this post we continue this subject by looking at the fact that television is king in the communication world today. […]
Stop Preaching and Start Communicating In the last couple of posts I explored methods that will help you preach to your whole congregation, to relate to the variety of people in it. With this post we’re going to change gears, and explore another avenue to learn how you can become a more effective preacher. […]
Preaching to Everyone in the Congregation In the last post we began looking at the challenge of preaching to everyone in the congregation that is varied by education, by ethnicity, by age, by financial situation, etc. How do you do that? I suggested in the last post that we can preach to everyone in particular […]
Preaching to Everyone In Particular One of the greatest challenges I faced in preaching was to relate to my entire audience, or, as the title of this post describes, “preaching to everyone in particular”. In the last congregation I served, Covenant Life Church in Grand Haven, MI, there were doctors, Phd’s, teachers, businessmen and lawyers. There […]