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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...

the sermon, stay confused, and let their mind wander to any thing other than the good news of Jesus Christ. Effective sermons require a strong focus. This has always been true but never more so than today. It is difficult to keep a congregation’s attention in our contemporary, media-soaked world. We have become an attention-deficit society. We scan a Web site on our laptop with a mixture of animated images and text popping up at us while watching the evening news on the television that is filled
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