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Small Preaching: 25 Little Things You Can Do Now to Become a Better Preacher is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is bigger always better? It’s not often that we hear the virtues of the small. Our culture teaches that bigger is better—and that includes church ministry and preaching, too. But what if rather than swinging for the fences, preachers focused on improving their sermons through small habits, practices, and exercises? What if smaller is better? In a world where “small” isn’t always celebrated,...

. Preaching is a performance, not in the negative sense but in the broader meaning of discharging or executing a public task or skill. It is inherent to preaching that you are putting your very self in front of people for scrutiny. So it is unavoidable that your ideas, your positions, your abilities, your mannerisms, your clothing, and your skills will be evaluated. And sooner or later (usually sooner), someone is going to say something critical, large or small, fair or unfair, based on
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