Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode, we discuss how to structure a sermon. Good, clear, sound and sermon structure is key to effective preaching. But sermon structure must stay in its place. You do not want to preach a jellyfish sermon, with no structure. And you do not want to preach a skeleton, with no life.
How should you structure your sermon for effective preaching?
- Structure the sermon based on the text.
- Structure the sermon around one main idea.
- Structure the sermon for clear communication.
- Structure the sermon for the allotted time.
- Structure the sermon to call for a response.
Question
- How do you structure your sermons?
Resources
- BOOK: On Preaching by H.B. Charles Jr.
- BOOK: On Pastoring by H.B. Charles Jr.
- ARTICLE: How to Structure a Sermon
- PODCAST: Developing Sermon Skeletons
- BOOK: Preparing Expository Sermons by Ramesh Richard
- BOOK: Text-Driven Preaching by David L. Allen
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