Sentences with phrase «in sermon preparation»

A pastor I once knew worked 80 hours a week, 40 of that just in sermon preparation.

Basically there are five steps in sermon preparation and performance.

If «art» in this sense seems to take a disproportionate amount of time in sermon preparation, it can be safely assumed that this time will diminish as the process of unlearning clears away artificialities that obstruct communication.

Not exact matches

You have a limited amount of energy for personal encounters, so you spend most of your day in your study and schedule your days to allow for study and sermon preparation.

It is this kind of in - depth, verse - by - verse study that the best preaching pastors do for the sermon preparation as they preach through books of the Bible.

When I was a pastor, I used to do that in my study to «prime the pump» for my own sermon preparation.

Each week's sermon preparation presents another opportunity to learn about the 1914 Christmas truce, say, or a medieval English traveler in China, and to connect these stories to sacred stories.

After careful preparation through study and sermon, the congregation may be ready for the third step — feminine imagery in the liturgy itself, in both spoken and sung words.

It faces both the theologian in the lecture room and the parish priest in the preparation of his sermons.

These were pastors I had been leading in a continuing education venture in preaching over the previous ten months, preachers who were working with sermon preparation groups in their own congregations.

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Preachers who understand that the Word seeks dialogue with the body of the faithful, even in the preparation and delivery of the sermon, will so restructure their sermon preparation regimen and alter their rhetorical strategies that they make room for the whole people of God in the pulpit.

So do hearers of a sermon sense very soon whether there has been careful restraint in preparation, whether some things will be left unsaid.

Pastors today follow this dynamic when as part of their sermon preparation they talk with laypeople about the text, or engage them in spontaneous dialogue during the worship service.

These approaches not only increase the relevance of sermons but give laymen a sense of genuine partnership in their preparation.

Then in the preparation of the sermon he was to preach on the Sunday, he would do this with them in mind, so that he might be able to some degree at least to make the gospel relevant to them and meaningful for them, precisely in their given situation and need.

A performance studies approach can complement the effort in homiletics to reappropriate Aristotilean categories by making the sermon preparation process more explicit.

This distillation of the process becomes neatly linear in the classroom and initially satisfies an impulse toward ordering the chaos and disconnectedness of sermon preparation into some significant process.

If he employs the dialogical principle, dialogue is implicit in his preparation, his delivery, and in the content of his sermon.