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The Four Pages of the Sermon, Revised and Updated: A Guide to Biblical Preaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

Doing justice to the complexity of the preaching task and the questions that underlie it, author Paul Scott Wilson organizes both the preparation and the content of the sermon around its "four pages." Each "page" addresses a different theological and creative component of what happens in any sermon. Page One presents the trouble or conflict that takes place in or that underscores the biblical...

A sermon that does not meet someone’s need does not need to be preached. Be sure to include the need phrased as question in the sermon, at least twice so people will hear it. It is not always possible for the theme sentence to be located in the introduction. However, “one need” can often stand in place of an initial statement of the theme sentence because it hooks the listeners and leads directly to the theme sentence. The fifth stop sign for preachers to