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Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, Teresa L. Fry Brown introduces preachers to the effective use of voice and body in the animation of the word in the preaching moment. Suggestions and exercises for enhancing voice, diction, and nonverbal engagement of the listener are included in each chapter. These exercises may be used with groups or for individual enhancement of sermon delivery. Delivering the Sermon combines...

Technologizing of the Word, linguist Walter Ong states that language allows humans to voice experiences in concrete terms, to enflesh experience in sensory imagery.7 Each of the preachers described above attempted to express his or her theology and textual understanding, and to address a faith issue in the context of a classroom of diverse listeners. It is important to understand that what works in one situation will fail miserably in another if one is unaware of the dynamics of language. Language
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