I have a friend who, with his family, sets out on vacation without a clear destination in mind. They just drive and where they end up is where they end up. It makes for some interesting vacations. While that may be okay for a vacation trip, it is not a good procedure for sermon design. Yet some preachers approach sermon design like my friend takes vacations: they set out to design a sermon without any clear idea of where the sermon is going. The place to begin in sermon design is
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