You must remember that in the art of preaching the secret of communication is not saying seven things, but saying one thing seven times (F. B. Meyer). So the subject must be crystallized in one word, phrase or sentence—the sermon in a nutshell. What the lead is to the journalist, so is the subject to the preacher. Good journalism calls for a pithy, catchy, condensed outline, and the construction of a good sermon requires the same. After all, since the Word of God is inexhaustible a preacher could