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Improvisational Preaching, Jared E. Alcántara
Improvisational Preaching, Jared E. Alcántara
Symposium on Worship Archive
This workshop teaches preachers how to adopt an improvisational approach to preaching. Drawing insights from theology, homiletics, and performance theory, participants will discuss how to internalize sermon manuscripts, how to balance conventional preparation with intuitive spontaneity, and how to read and respond to listeners during the live sermon. As a case study in improvisational preaching, participants will also listen to and learn from the preaching of Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, one of the leading African-American preachers of the twentieth century.
Preaching Without Notes, Mike Graves
Preaching Without Notes, Mike Graves
Symposium on Worship Archive
A note taking document on the brief discussion of the scary side of preaching, how to preach without notes, internalizing the gospel, and personal journey.
Preaching As Pastoral Care, Howard Vanderwell
Preaching As Pastoral Care, Howard Vanderwell
Symposium on Worship Archive
The multiple aims of preaching show didatic, apologetic, formation, persuasion, evangelistic, prophetic, and pastoral. This workshop emphasizes the pastoral care portion of this.
Writing Sermons In An Oral Style, Frederick Dale Bruner, Garth Pauley
Writing Sermons In An Oral Style, Frederick Dale Bruner, Garth Pauley
Symposium on Worship Archive
The rhetorician James Winans once wrote, "A speech is not merely an essay standing on its hind legs." Yet many speakers—including preachers—write their messages in a style better suited for reading rather than hearing. To be an effective oral communicator, one must learn to write for the ear, not the eye.
Who You Are Is How You Are Heard: Personality And Personal Ethics In Preaching, Mary Hulst
Who You Are Is How You Are Heard: Personality And Personal Ethics In Preaching, Mary Hulst
Symposium on Worship Archive
The small choices preachers make provide hearers not only with a better understanding of the text, but also with a keen understanding of the preacher. This session invited participants to become self-aware in their own preaching and to improve their "ethics of preaching," or to learn how to listen to the things the preacher isn't saying.