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The Shape of Preaching: Theory and Practice in Sermon Design is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

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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