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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...

The use of the word logos (“word”) in John 1:1 calls to mind Aristotle’s use of the same Greek word in his discussion on rhetoric where he talks about logos, pathos, and ethos.1 A shorthand version of Aristotle’s approach to rhetoric or public speaking would state, first, that when we stand to speak we need to have something to say that is worth saying (logos). Second, if it is worth saying, then it is worth saying well (pathos). Third, it does not matter how well something of importance is said
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