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Your First Sermon: Getting from Here to Sunday in Five Manageable Steps
They asked you to preach this Sunday. Now you are sweating bullets.Don’t This book will show you how.Gary Neal Hansen PhD, experienced pastor, long-time seminary professor, and award-winning author, will help you every step of the way.Your First Sermon will walk you through a straightforward, completely doable process to prepare and preach a sermon you can be proud of. Your sermon will be faithful to Scripture—even if you aren’t a Bible scholar. Your sermon will help the people of your church in their Christian lives—even if you aren’t their pastor. Your sermon will be ready by Sunday—even if you have a day job. Your First Sermon is the manageable, step-by-step guide to a solid sermon. You don’t have to know everything about the Bible or about preaching. You don’t have to know much of anything, really. If you are looking for a practical, down-to-earth process taught by an experienced preacher who really wants you to succeed, then you’ll love Gary Neal Hansen’s preaching book.Buy Your First Sermon now, and you’ll be on your way to success when Sunday comes.
108 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 25, 2020
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September 25, 2020
Gary Neal Hansen has done it again--he's taken a huge topic and distilled it into something manageable.
In Kneeling with Giants, he took our hand and showed us, step-by-step, how to structure our prayer lives in such a way that it's spiritually nourishing. Now, with Your First Sermon, he's taken the art of writing a sermon and showed us how to paint every stroke.
I don't want to give away any of his secrets, but his five-step process will get anyone preaching within one week. And, for the experienced preacher, his process services as a good reminder of what a good sermon does and, perhaps, a fresh way to structure what we say.
You also don't find many authors who highly encourage their readers to email them after they've read the book. Gary generally wants to know how those first preachers did. He also offers some other tools to help you on your way on his website, and there's a bonus chapter. You just can't go wrong with this helpful book.
In Kneeling with Giants, he took our hand and showed us, step-by-step, how to structure our prayer lives in such a way that it's spiritually nourishing. Now, with Your First Sermon, he's taken the art of writing a sermon and showed us how to paint every stroke.
I don't want to give away any of his secrets, but his five-step process will get anyone preaching within one week. And, for the experienced preacher, his process services as a good reminder of what a good sermon does and, perhaps, a fresh way to structure what we say.
You also don't find many authors who highly encourage their readers to email them after they've read the book. Gary generally wants to know how those first preachers did. He also offers some other tools to help you on your way on his website, and there's a bonus chapter. You just can't go wrong with this helpful book.
October 30, 2020
Good advice for beginning preachers
This is a good solid book of practical information for beginning preachers. It gives step-by-step instructions on how to study, prepare, write, and preach a sermon. My method is slightly different from Hansen's, but only slightly, and it has evolved with time and experience. But it's important to have a method for preparation and a structure for the sermon itself, otherwise you're just somebody yacking in the pulpit and not a preacher. Hansen provides a method that anyone who is called to preach can start with and build on.
This is a good solid book of practical information for beginning preachers. It gives step-by-step instructions on how to study, prepare, write, and preach a sermon. My method is slightly different from Hansen's, but only slightly, and it has evolved with time and experience. But it's important to have a method for preparation and a structure for the sermon itself, otherwise you're just somebody yacking in the pulpit and not a preacher. Hansen provides a method that anyone who is called to preach can start with and build on.
July 5, 2023
Whewwwww!!!
Following the recommendations in this book can take a scary and overwhelming task and turn it into a blessed success! I highly recommend it!
Following the recommendations in this book can take a scary and overwhelming task and turn it into a blessed success! I highly recommend it!
June 16, 2024
I would recommend this book to new and first time preachers.
This book gave excellent tips and ideas for preaching a first sermon. It is also very easy to read through each chapter,
This book gave excellent tips and ideas for preaching a first sermon. It is also very easy to read through each chapter,
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