Axiom #1: "The speech before the speech" is step one in audience bonding. The narrative exposition more than any other expository form relies on bonding with the audience. This may be one of the very few preaching texts you will read that will talk about this strategic first step in pulpit com

The proclamation of the Word of God through the lives of Bible characters in a biographical sermon has had a lively history of practice. In the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century, the biographical sermon was highly esteemed, and congregations thronged to hear the colorful biograp