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Sermon Preparation Tips
Relevance makes your sermon fresh. Update your sermon by using words and phrases that belong to your generation. In this day and age, technology has taken some parts of our daily life. Use words like internet, Google, Ipad, Ipod, SMS or texting, Facebook, Twitter.
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Sermon Concept Tips
Always aim to touch the congregation's mind (intellect) first, emotion (soul) second, and heart (spirit) last. Aiming the arrow in this order will certainly hit the bull's eye. When the heart is touched, the sermon message is retained in their spirit, and it makes the altar call a lot "easier."
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Sermon Topic Tips
Preachers should always strive to prepare and organise their sermons to facilitate delivery and ease of understanding and remembering. Give yourself ample time to prepare and digest which could be four, two or a week. An hour of preparation before the delivery is the last thing a preacher does.
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Sermon Text Tips
First approach to interpret the text: Interpret it literally or plainly. If it makes sense, then that is the real sense, e.g. When Lot's wife became a pillar of salt, her whole body was turned into a solid structure of salt.
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Sermon Theme Tips
The theme is the one-sentence summary of the whole sermon. For example, in the Easter message entitled Concluding Act, the theme, "A rolled stone and an empty tomb conclude God's plan of salvation" encapsulates that salvation did not end in the crucifixion but in the resurrection.
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Sermon Introduction Tips
An introduction is like a bait that lures the fish to bite or to let go. Throwing a question like, "What did you have for dinner on this date a year ago?" or "What dress was your wife wearing on your first date?" will surely arrest everyone's attention.
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Sermon Conclusion Tips
Aim to finish strong. As you have prepared a gripping introduction, make sure that you have prepared an absorbing conclusion as well. As the last part of the sermon, most preachers overlook this crucial part of the sermon, hence they fail to piece together a compelling ending.
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Sermon Illustration Tips
Specific words are more picturesque (therefore more effective) than generic words. Say eagle rather than a big bird, Coke for soft drink, Colgate for toothpaste, carrot for vegetable, or Ferrari for expensive car.
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Sermon Delivery Tips
A well-organised outline with excellent topic and theme doesn't guarantee success, if the delivery is sub-standard. Poor delivery may be accounted for lack of prayer. An anointed delivery is the result of the time you spent preparing and praying.
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Sermon Spicing Up Tips
A sermon outline, being a skeleton, is too bare to deliver; it needs to be accessorised. Mouth-watering introduction, compelling illustration, statistics, soaking in prayer, challenging conclusion, practising in front of the mirror, are some "ornaments" that will make your sermon attractive.
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Sermon Tools Tips
Online bible software is a handy tool to compare scriptures in different versions, or looking for a keyword, a phrase, a verse or a book in the Bible than the printed copies. During sermon preparation, you can easily copy and paste passages onto your outline. I have downloaded two free bible softwares which I find the best and user-friendly: 1) Biblegateway (www.biblegateway.com); and 2) E-sword (www.e-sword.net). |
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Sermon Classifications Tips
A topical sermon is used when presenting life issues that are inadequately treated in the Bible. For example, to discourage smoking, the best text is 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 which teaches that our body, being the temple of the Holy Spirit, must not be desecrated. Other issues that are not directly addressed by the Bible are birth control, divorce among Christian couples, listening to secular music or watching movies. Read more Topical Sermon Tips... Read more Textual Sermon Tips... |
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