Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Identify various methods of sermon preparation and delivery

• Use transitions to create a sermon with a natural flow

• Use voice and gesture to communicate effectively

• Cultivate a personal style that is audience appropriate

• Understand postmodernism’s impact on listeners

• Articulate how a biblical passage applies to a particular audience

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Transitions and the Dialogical Method

• The Function of Transitions

• The Nature of Transitions

• Dialogical Transitions

• Logical and Numerical Connections

• Parallel Statements, Illustrative Transitions, and Tiebacks

• Billboards

• Verse References

• The Memory Retention Hierarchy

Unit 2: Methods of Sermon Preparation

• Manuscript Sermons

• Outlined Sermons

• Fully Extemporized Sermons

• Options for Sermon Notes

• Evaluating Impromptu Preaching

• Evaluating Preaching from Outlines

• Evaluating Manuscript Preaching

• Converting a Manuscript to an Outline

• Preaching from Memory

Unit 3: Basic Features of Sermon Delivery

• The Power of Natural Delivery

• Transparent Delivery

• Expression in Delivery

• Appropriate Volume

• Variety in Verbal Expressions

• Intensity of Expression

• Gesturing and Eye Contact

• Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures

• Body Movement

• Gestures to Avoid

Unit 4: Dress and Style for Sermon Delivery

• Community and Gospel Considerations

• Identifying with the People

• Principles for Appropriate Dress

• The Power of Dress

• Cultivating a Personal Style through Vulnerability

• Cultivating a Personal Style through Language

• Cultivating a Plain Style

Unit 5: Preparation and Planning for Expository Sermons

• Spiritual Preparation

• Intellectual Preparation: Knowing God’s Word

• Intellectual Preparation: Knowing Our World

• Preparation of the Attitude

• Sermon Planning

• Weekly Sermon Planning

• Disciplined Sermon Preparation

• Collecting Material for Sermons

• Filing Collected Material

• Planning for Practice and Prayer

Unit 6: The Expositor’s Stance

• RAMBOPP: Text and Sermon Focus

• RAMBOPP: Presentation Focus

• Emphasizing the Priority of God’s Word

• Reading God’s Word Meaningfully

• Tips for Reading God’s Word

• More Tips for Reading God’s Word

Unit 7: Inductive Homiletic Approaches

• Comparing Deductive and Inductive Approaches

• The Roots of Inductive Homiletics

• Starting with Questions

• Varying the Order of Sermon Components

• Varying the Time Spent on Sermon Components

• Preaching via Story: Commented Retelling

• Preaching via Story: Contemporary Retelling

• Constructing Homiletical Plots

• Choosing Appropriate Sermon Approaches and Forms

• Variations on Problem-Solution Sermons

Unit 8: New Listeners: Inside and Outside the Church

• Biblical and Doctrinal Knowledge in the Church

• Generational Differences in the Church

• Reasons for Attending Church

• Spiritual State of the Church

• God, Religion, and Culture for the Unchurched

• Values of the Unchurched

• Effective Preaching for New Listeners

• Providing Clear and Redemptive Direction to Listeners

• Addressing Objections and Self-Centeredness of Listeners

• Crafting Language for New Listeners

• Elements of Evangelistic Preaching

• Evangelistic Preaching for Different Audiences

• Evangelistic Preaching for All Audiences

• Keys to Conversational Preaching

Unit 9: Sermon Applications for New Listeners

• Principles of Traditional Application

• Troubling Aspects of Application

• Specifying Situations for Sermon Application

• Common Situations for Sermon Application

• Addressing Motivations in Sermon Applications

• How Disobedience Affects Relationship with God

• Enabling Change in Sermon Application

• Opening the Horizon for Sermon Application

• Reversing the Train in Sermon Application

• Loving a Puritan and a Parable: Two-Phased Messages

• Turning the Radio on: The Applicational Model

• Selecting an Appropriate Sermon Model

Conclusion

• Course Summary

Details

• Title: CM153 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons III: Advanced Techniques and Theory

• Instructor: Bryan Chapell

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 11