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Determining the Form: Structures for Preaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

This title offers preaching students and clergy an overview of some of the most common sermonic forms and provides insights for determining which forms are most—and least—amenable to the claim that they want to make in their sermon. Many, if not most, sermons wind up being somewhat formless and thus less effective than they might be in communicating the gospel. Rather than training students in a...

still take over control of the dog late in the process. Thus, generally (that is, linearly) speaking, the how phase follows (albeit in a messy fashion) the what phase in the preparation process so that the partnership of the what and how is inconspicuous and well balanced in the hearing of the sermon. One of the most important considerations in deciding how to say what you want to say is to determine the form of your sermon. By sermonic form we mean the overarching rhetorical structure of the sermon
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