From Your Heart to Theirs, Instructor's Guide: Delivering an Effective Sermon - Paperback

by Tony Franks (Author), David Carroll (Author)

The instructor's guide for From Your Heart to Theirs breaks down the important ideas to relate as you plan your study, the preparatory tasks, logistical steps, and the session goals in short, practical outlines.

The objective of this guide is to help you lead a 10-hour advanced course for certified lay speakers who want to hone their preaching skills. During the training, you'll lay the groundwork to help each speaker present a short sermon, and you'll be equipped to coach them to do their best.

Part of the Learning & Leading Series, a course that helps participants to prepare sermons by providing plans and worksheets, stressing good oral communication, offering suggestions on incorporating stories, and providing time for prayer, study, and revision. Appropriate for use in a variety of settings, including Lay Speaking Advanced Courses, Ministerial Course of Study, colleges, and seminaries.

A Participant's Guide is available.

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Franks and Carroll move beyond the basics of public speaking and address the foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon. The 5 parts of this helpful experiential guide include: types of sermons, from exegetical to topical to children's sermons, finding the story and using the hymnal, reading the Bible aloud, communicating on paper and moving beyond the paper and presentation and practice. Each of the sections is designed to fit into a 2-hour session with the goal of preparing an individual to become a more effective preacher.