message; they make three or four sermonettes all preached at one time. Reuel L. Howe listened to hundreds of taped sermons and held discussions with laypeople. He concluded that the people in the pew “complain almost unanimously that sermons often contain too many ideas.”1 That may not be an accurate observation. Sermons seldom fail because they have too many ideas; more often they fail because they deal with too many unrelated ideas. Fragmentation poses a particular danger for the expository preacher.