This course will help students write a sermon in one week. Students are expected to:
- Complete online assignments each day
- Write and submit a sermon manuscript
- Edit the sermon based on feedback
- Preach the 10-minute sermon
- Participate in three online web-based meetings
Students will be given a lectionary passage that will be used for writing their sermon at the first online class meeting. Completed sermons will be presented in the final online class meeting.
The real danger for the preacher is not the gospel, but his/her personality. ... Preaching is truth mediated through personality (Brooks 1904).
Goals
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Work through the basic steps of preparing a sermon. Although we will talk about the different styles of sermons we will concentrate on the steps one needs to take to be able to write and deliver the sermon.
- Write a sermon in 1 week.
- Effectively share the sermon which should lead people to a personal devotional time.
- Facilitator: Carl Ellis