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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...

Movement While sermons need to have a unity of focus, they must not be static. Hearers should experience sermons more like watching a movie than staring at a painting in a museum.1 Movement is essential for keeping the hearers interested in what is being said and open to the transforming power of the gospel. Every sermon, regardless of its form, has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The relationship to the unified focus is different in each of these phases of the sermon. The beginning in some way
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