Many times my sermon has been better in my office than in the pulpit. I often feel like I did not present it as well as I should have. I use heavy notes—not a total manuscript, but close. So I have looked over the content of my sermon and prayed, but still felt I fell short. I am speaking from the delivery standpoint, but from the content standpoint, there is no reason you should have a bad sermon.
There are many styles of preaching. Some move around a little bit, others know the peak of voice control well, while yet others do not move at all and hardly change tone. I have been around long enough to know that bad sermons are preached by trying to create an atmosphere of emotional manipulation. Many are taught that the more people that move to the “altar” after the service, the more “God showed up and showed out.” This is bad preaching, bad theology about God, and it is an epidemic in many churches.
No matter the style you have in your preaching, there is no…
