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Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon is unavailable, but you can change that!

Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached—the sermonic “claim”. In order to be effective, says McMickle, a sermon needs to address the hearers at three distinct levels; the head or the intellect, the heart or passion and conviction, and the hand or an expected and desired response. In order to discover the biblical “claim” that a sermon should make upon...

“Now what?” and will remind preachers that sermons are not complete until they have pointed the listeners to some appropriate next steps that should be taken as a result of having heard that sermon. Each of those three chapters will be informed by the three goals offered by Aristotle in his reflections on rhetoric; logos, pathos, and ethos. The chapter on “What to preach?” will reflect on Aristotle’s use of the word logos and will make the case that every sermon must be based upon a clear and compelling
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