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The mark of great preaching is not the ability to say profound things with complexity, or to say simple things cleverly, but the willingness to say profound things simply.
The most natural way of reading with eye contact is what I call “ladling.” Look down at the text to scoop the wording of a sentence into your mind, and then look up to ladle it out to your listeners with your eyes. Do not break the flow of your reading as you ladle it.
This sermon is expository, meaning that it explains a particular passage of Scripture by clarifying the main and subordinate ideas of the author in the context of the biblical passage and by applying these spiritual truths to our contemporary situations.
The approach is deductive, meaning that it moves from the development of general principles to the statement of particular applications (inductive sermons move in the opposite direction).
