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Many pastors are just too busy to follow the latest theories on preaching and sermon form. In The Shape of Preaching, Dennis M. Cahill seeks both to educate the working pastor on the current issues of sermon design and enable them to use this design in a way that can change their preaching. After first laying the theoretical groundwork with discussions of the theological, cultural, and literary...

or kidney-shaped or L-shaped. Just as every pool has structure, so every sermon has form. Every preacher must make decisions about the kind of content to use as well as the order in which to deliver that content. The decisions we make in response to those kinds of choices are what constitute the form or design of the sermon. Sermon form has to do with sequence: the order of ideas in the sermon. Which thought comes first? Which comes second? Which comes last? The order of preaching ideas is not a
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