help make your outlines more attention grabbing and memorable to your congregation. I (Greg) had a preaching class in seminary in which the professor said that we should always try to make the points of our sermon “applicational.” What he meant was that the points of our sermons should be in the form of imperatives because that will most engage the minds of our hearers and help them realize the relevance to their lives of what we’re saying. That’s probably good advice sometimes. There are plenty of times,