Partners in Prayer For The Preacher

Praying for the Pastor We've been looking, in recent posts, at the presentation of the sermon, including gestures, vocal variations, and speaking rate.  The subject after this one will be the various types of sermons that can be preached,…

Using Powerpoint for Punch

Guidelines for Using Powerpoint I've been giving several guidelines for the presentation of your sermon in the past several posts. In this post, we turn to the subject of powerpoint. I am aware that many of you do not have the equipment…

Create Positive Gestures

Use of your body Watch What You Do With Your Hands Mistake #1: Use No Positive Gestures When I was a teenager, the church of which I was a member got a new pastor. Because I was actively involved in ministry in the church, he…
create vocal variety

Create Vocal Variety

How You Speak Makes A Difference In the last post I began the subject that I called Guidelines for Sermon Delivery. I want to continue that subject in this post. Having said, in the last post, that we should keep a pretty vigorous pace…

Guidelines for Sermon Delivery

How You Talk Makes a Difference In the last post I talked about the fact that your sermon has to be interesting if people are going to go along on the journey of your message. In this post, let's begin a series of posts that describe some…