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Steps to the Sermon: An Eight-Step Plan For Preaching with Confidence (Revised) is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the years since the original publication of Steps to the Sermon in 1963, audiences have become more sophisticated, preachers have learned to adjust their styles to reach today’s media saturated mindset, and sermon styles have shifted from deductive to inductive. In view of these changes Steps to the Sermon has been revised to help preachers communicate to the present generation. It will also...

Although the New Testament offers no formal definition of preaching, a study of the primary terms reveals much about the nature of preaching. The most frequently used word in the New Testament for preaching, keryssein, is translated “to proclaim” or “to herald” and occurs more than fifty times in its various inflections. In the Gospels and in Acts it is usually translated “preach” or “preaching” or “preached.” It denotes that the messenger has a message of
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