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Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures is unavailable, but you can change that!

With the landscape of ministry changing, preachers need a variety of tools to effectively communicate God’s truth to today’s listeners. Beginning with a strong call to keep preaching, this practical book presents and describes five different models for doing so, also relating each style to well-known contemporary preachers. Today, traditional forms of preaching are being scrutinized and...

Brooks’s prescription sounds quite a lot like Kimball’s. Preaching, Brooks famously suggested, is the presentation of truth through personality.6 Truth must be embodied. We know truth because it has been told to us (knowledge), and we are convinced of it because we have experienced it. The preacher’s challenge, then, is to share our experience with others. People need to know the truth, and they need someone who will tell them the truth. Like Jesus said, they will know that we have told them the
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