Actuality: Real Life Stories for Sermons That Matter
Preachers need stories. Stories, examples, and illustrations bring sermons to life. But what sort of stories work best to communicate the gospel for listeners today?
In Actuality, discover why the best sermon illustrations come from real life, from the actual experiences of trouble and grace in your own life as a preacher and in the lives of your congregants. Learn how to find those stories and how to use them. Author Scott Hoezee demonstrates new story-sharing techniques with multiple examples and clear, practical guidance which is useful and instructive for every preacher who seeks to bring new vitality to the pulpit.
Stories have a limit, but your reach doesn't have to.
Helps reader answer immediate question of how to find good story and illustration material for sermons.
Introduces reader to a better way to consider story in sermon not as illustration to proposition but as a means of revealing reality.
Offers specific ways to find good story material.
Offers way for reader to move past a never-ending tactical search for more good stuff to learning how to curate and discover their own material... from offering fish to teaching to fish, as it were.
Product Details
- Title : Actuality: Real Life Stories for Sermons That Matter
- Author: Hoezee, Scott
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781426796258