TALBOT DAVIS
Helping preachers be more productive in sermon prep and have more impact in message delivery.
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Top Five Preaching Rituals, Routines, And Habits
Given that this is US Open time of year, the Charlotte Observer recently ran a story about the rather unusual — OK, bizarre — routines, habits, and...
How I Answered Five Questions About Preaching
As part of its ongoing Leadership Development process, the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church asked five of its...
What Bruce Springsteen Taught Me About Ambiguity, Art, and Preaching
I recently picked up Bruce Springsteen’s 510 page memoir, “Born To Run.” While Springsteen is not my absolute favorite rocker, I DID live in New...
The Real Romans Road
Many of you are familiar with the Romans Road, a collection of verses from that signature New Testament book designed to lead people on the “road”...
When A Veteran Preacher Finally Learns How To Read A NT Epistle
I have been reading the New Testament for a long time, but I realize that I am only now learning how to read its epistles correctly. And to read the...
Does Greatness Come In A Moment Or Must It Be Sustained? A Post Connecting Literature, Tennis, And Preaching
Way back in the spring of 1984, as I was winding up my English degree in college, I took a class on theories of literary interpretation. It sounds...
The Breadcrumbs Of Preaching
Over the past six months or so, I have heard two different one point sermons that caught my attention. The preachers in question delivered well...
Preaching Predicaments
In speaking with a preacher friend recently, I mentioned that the early part of every sermon needs to surface a problem that needs to be solved or...
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Deliver sermons with clarity, passion, and boldness.
Simplify the Message: Multiply the Impact is designed to help preachers break through the noise of culture and the cauldron of church to deliver sermons with clarity, passion, and boldness.
Designed specifically to help:
- young preachers developing their skills who need structure, a process, and hope.
- more seasoned preachers who may have “settled” needing tools to invigorate their preparation and inspire their delivery
Paul told the Corinthians:
“When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I didn’t come preaching God’s secrets to you like I was an expert in speech or wisdom. I had made up my mind not to think about anything while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and to preach him as crucified.” (I Corinthians 2:1-2, CEB)
Author Talbot Davis shares the insights and habits that will empower the reader’s preaching and teaching to be:
• Both creative and disciplined;
• Both carefully prepared and thoroughly spontaneous; and
• Both rooted in history and connected to modernity.
Simple is the opposite of simplistic. Sermons with clear & unmistakable focus are best able to plumb the depths not only of Gospel beauty but of the hearers’ lives.
