Mind Mapping and Sermon Preparation

Posted by Brandon under Leadership on Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Below is a mind map. Behold…

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If you’ve never used mind mapping, you might want to give it a try. I’ve found it to be an excellent tool for brainstorming, organizational charting, sermon preparation, memorization of large amounts of data, planning, and collaboration. Essentially, mind mapping is a means of throwing our thoughts out on paper with some kind of spatial representation that our brains tend to enjoy.

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The Two Halves of Sermon-Making

Posted by Brandon under CultureLeadership on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Great preachers and professors today differ on the best way to communicate the gospel. I’m still a strong advocate of book-by-book, expository preaching and I’ve found it to be a very divinely blessed method in the spiritual growth of God’s people. I also believe that expository preaching is the greatest way to preach the gospel of Jesus to our generation. Nonetheless, there is a more important aspect of preparing sermons than the method used. There is also the spiritual aspect, the prayer factor.

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