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When Your Brother Becomes a Brother
The story of a great falling out.


Advanced Storytelling
Techniques for increasing the power of Storytelling




Grafting in the Third-Person Illustration (part one)
How to make illustrations that do not come from your own experience into an organic part of the sermon.




Grafting in the Third-Person Illustration (part two)
How to make illustrations that do not come from your own experience into an organic part of the sermon.




3-D Storytelling
An interview with author Kevin A. Miller




Adapting Illustrations So They Fit You (part one)
Six recipes for changing ready-made illustrations to fit your Style and purpose.




Adapting Illustrations So They Fit You (part two)
Six recipes for changing ready-made illustrations to fit your Style and purpose.




Sidestepping Illustration Dangers
Maintain your credibility by avoiding two types of illustrations.




Vitality of Specifics
Choosing the best words to tell the story


John Ortberg: Illustrating with Slices of Life
Finding powerful sermon illustrations in the Storytelling and scenes of the everyday.




Understanding Humor
Three things that make us laugh.




Getting the Big Idea Right
Did the preacher understand the story?


Build around Disease and Remedy
Shaping the narrative sermon




Preach Story Texts in Story Style
Shaping the narrative sermon


How to Tell a Great Story
The purposes of the beginning, middle, and end




Bringing Bible Storytelling to Life
How to paint the scenes that engage modern audiences


A Narrative Structure That Has Best of Both Worlds
Narration-implication model captures the strengths of both inductive and deductive approaches.


Language of Application
What makes a sermon feel relevant from beginning to end?




Good Tension
The role of timing in telling a gripping story.




When Your Text Is a Story (part two)
How to exegete a biblical narrative




Preaching Stories
How to find and preach the big idea.




Power of "Everyday Disciples" Illustrations
What kind of examples influence hearers most?




Limits of Personal Illustrations
Why Storytelling from your experience are not always the best




Life in Leviticus
Planting this church, I spent a year preaching through Leviticus, and (surprise!) it worked




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