Be brief about it /
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| Author / Creator: | Young, Robert Doran, 1928- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ©1980. |
| Description: | 144 pages ; 20 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13193493 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1: Reasons for preaching briefer sermons
- The times require brevity
- Theology sanctions brevity
- Contagious communication utilizes brevity
- Pt. 2: Ten guidelines for brief preaching
- Think small
- Adopt a poetry model
- Select a simple unity
- Stay close to the original inspiration
- Make the point quickly
- Trim the cast
- Time's up--sign off!
- Take soundings
- Feel comfortable with silence
- Let the listener do the traveling
- Pt. 3: Does brevity compromise?
- Pt. 4: Samples
- I am the Way
- Do you want to be healed?
- The absurd goodness of God
- Keep up the good work.