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    50 POWERFUL SERMON OUTLINES, VOL. 2: GREAT FOR PASTORS, MINISTERS, PREACHERS, TEACHERS, EVANGELISTS, AND LAITY
    50 POWERFUL SERMON OUTLINES, VOL. 2: GREAT FOR PASTORS, MINISTERS, PREACHERS, TEACHERS, EVANGELISTS, AND LAITY
    50 POWERFUL SERMON OUTLINES, VOL. 2: GREAT FOR PASTORS, MINISTERS, PREACHERS, TEACHERS, EVANGELISTS, AND LAITY
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    50 POWERFUL SERMON OUTLINES, VOL. 2: GREAT FOR PASTORS, MINISTERS, PREACHERS, TEACHERS, EVANGELISTS, AND LAITY

    By Christopher E. L. Toote, Ph.D. and D.Min.

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    Dr. Christopher Toote has written a master-preacher guide for pastors and teachers to learn how to outline a sermon, access a biblical text, understand multiple ways to interpret the Bible, and provide applicable meaning in today's world. Dr. Toote understands how to prepare, present, and apply God's word. He brings a scholar's mind and a pastor's heart to his writing. This work is drawn from a deep well of experience in Christian and secular higher education and a lifelong practice of biblical exposition. He's been on both sides of the pulpit- as preacher and parishioner. He has lived out the gospel on campus and preached and taught faithfully in congregations.

    This book reflects years of hard work from a student of God's word. He understands what it's like to work throughout the week and be responsible for the work of the word on a weekly basis. When I read preaching textbooks, I would rather read from those who prepare a new sermon regularly rather than a preacher who only speaks occasionally. Dr. Toote knows the weekly process of prayer, reflection, study, and delivery. He knows the experience of struggling through a Saturday night after a busy week with little time to prepare a message. He understands the demands of a congregation, and he has walked with people through life and death. These sermon outlines reflect his pastoral experience.

    In this three volume collection, he offers the student of God's word 150 teachable, ready-to-use outlines for teaching on relationships, personal discipleship, and trust in Jesus as Lord. He mines treasures from 36 books of the Bible and over 113 key passages and scripture readings from both the Old and New Testaments. Dr. Toote explains favorite passages clearly and pushes the reader to study unfamiliar passages carefully. His applications are personal, practical, and profound.

    Each volume covers a broad sweep of scripture and yet has distinctive themes that emerge. Volume one teaches us how to use the Bible to deepen and develop our relationship with the church, our families and our parents. The second volume deals with discipleship: how to grow personally in our walks with the Lord. The third volume focuses on Lordship: how to trust Jesus in all spheres of life.

    William D. Shiell, Ph.D.
    President
    Professor of Pastoral Theology and Preaching
    Northern Seminary
    Lisle, Illinois
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateMay 5, 2019
    ISBN9781456633127
    50 POWERFUL SERMON OUTLINES, VOL. 2: GREAT FOR PASTORS, MINISTERS, PREACHERS, TEACHERS, EVANGELISTS, AND LAITY

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      50 POWERFUL SERMON OUTLINES, VOL. 2 - Christopher E. L. Toote

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      FOREWORD

      One of the outstanding benefits of Dr. Christopher E. L. Toote’s book, 50 Powerful Sermon Outlines, Vol. 2, is that it teaches a very important principle of preaching: structure. There are many books, articles, and resources on preaching, but the resources that I find most valuable are those that offer help with how to structure the sermon. Many preachers miss that structure is one of the keys to high quality preaching. Preachers that are good at structure have many friends joining with the preacher during the preaching process. Preachers that are not good at structure are hard to follow and not very easy to listen to. The listeners will know that something is not quite right about the sermon and cannot name it. The astute preacher will know that there were structural problems with the sermon.

      Before we get too far, let me define structure so that you will know what I am meaning. Structure is how thought moves in the preaching of the sermon. The great teacher of preaching, H. Grady Davis said: a sermon is an audible movement of thought across time. Thought has to move in a sermon to make sense to the listener. One idea moves and connects to another idea and idea that moves and connects to another idea until the entire message forms in the consciousness of the hearer. The Introductory remarks is a movement of thought that connects with the three points of the sermon (three movements of thought) that connects with the movement of thought of the concluding remarks. First, if thought moves too slow, then the movement of thought bogs down too long in one place and the sermon is considered as boring. If thought moves too fast, it is hard for people to understand and the message will feel like that old game hop scotch, with preachers hopping from one thought to the next skipping important boxes of understanding. Important ideas get left out because the preacher is moving too fast. If thought moves in a scattered direction with a loss of focus because the preacher takes side roads that take people off the main road of thought, then people’s minds will wander here and there and not pay attention. A sermon outline is the way that you organize the flow of thought in a sermon for people to follow you easily and understand.

      One expression of movement of thought is the sermon outline. The sermon outline is a plan for the movement of thought in a sermon. Pay close attention to the sermon outlines in this book and you will pay attention to the structure of sermons. Do not take the easy way out and just adopt a sermon outline and then preach it. That is the easy road and you do not learn the deeper lesson: how to structure a message. You do

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