What you need to look at is … as you’re looking through either a passage of Scripture or a topic of interest, ask yourself this first question, “Is this a topic that seems compelling to me? Is this something that needs to be said today through me to a local setting?” “On a scale of 1 to 10,” you could ask yourself, “how important is this subject to my congregation, to the people I’m speaking to?” Now, in some ways some sermons—for example, evangelistic sermons—they’re always important because there