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12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded is unavailable, but you can change that!

The premise of this book is simple: Preachers can improve their preaching significantly by strengthening specific skills used in the preparation of expository sermons. Twelve Essential Skills for Great Preaching concentrates on twelve tasks that are necessary to the most effective sermon preparation: 1. Diagramming the text structure 2. Noting the text details 3. Asking research questions 4....

want to compare favorite versions for a broader view. Some prefer a dynamic equivalent translation (like the New International Version) in the pulpit because it emphasizes the use of contemporary language.3 You may want to consult paraphrases as well, but recognize that they are often more commentary than translation. Preparing the Structural Diagram How do you prepare the structural diagram? Copy the exact wording of the text. You may write the text wording by hand from your Bible. Or you may copy
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