I Refuse to Preach a Boring Sermon!: Engaging the 21st Century Listener

by Karyn L Wiseman

It is not always about the message but about the connection. In this day of multi-tasking, distraction and technology overload, the message may miss the mark. With easy-to-follow suggestions, Wiseman will help any preacher, lay and ordained, to take risks and embrace creative ways to preach a powerful message that will be heard and touch the spirit.

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2013

Reviews

[Lisa Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. This is a tour of different approaches to keep your sermon listeners engaged. The helpful hints and suggestions run the range from simply painting better pictures with words to the debate of how far to go with use of technology. I feel privlidged that I have seen the author preach and her sermons serious and lighthearted are indeed not at all boring. She is a truly engaging preacher. After reading this book, I really want to find out what she teaches at my seminary and sign up for it. As much as the audience for this book is seminarians and pastors, this book is an effective tool for anyone looking to keep an audience engaged. She does focus on sermons but her techniques can be used in other forms of presentation as well. I highly recommend this book! I had been wanting to read it but recently it showed up on a list of books to chose from for a paper I was assigned. My assignment was a good justification to make the purchase and give this book a review. I tend to sell back some of my textbooks but with all the helpful hints in this one..it is a keeper.

[Rob O'Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid if not becoming somewhat dated introduction to creativity in preaching. Solid in that it comes from a scholar who has been at the forefront of conversations about creativity in preaching. Becoming dated in that, as she envisions, the conversations regarding technology are now a generation behind. That being said, this remains an excellent starter volume for the preacher -- or homiletician -- who genuinely seeks to be creative and refuses to preach a boring sermon.