How to Gain and Hold Attention

Four points that others use to evaluate and classify us.

The three steps of the the simplest level of communication

Three reasons for miscommunication

Three common misunderstandings of the complexity of communication

Three types of non-mediated communication

Advantages of a public-address setting.

Six characteristics of a good public speaker:

The real reason we preach. 

Seven things that happen when we preach!

Eleven things that a preacher is..

Six  points about the preacher and the Word

Four convictions about the word

There is only one motive for ministry.

Select your form of preaching.

Eleven elemental forms that thought takes

Three kinds of sermons:

Organize ideas according to purpose

Three general aims of preaching.

Five specific aims of preaching.

Seven logical aims of preaching.

Three ways a sermon is like a train.

Use the CREAM method for word choices.

How to hang pictures in your message.

Tie it all together.