Yesterday my new book Preaching That Moves People was released. Within 24 hours it had become Amazon’s #1 Hot Seller and, even better, Amazon’s #1 Bestseller in the field of preaching books. Granted, it’s a fairly narrow field but I’ll take what I can get. 😉 The book has received a warm welcome and I hope God uses it to bless many pastors, church planters, and seminarians for years to come.
Hey Yancey!
I’m among those who purchased your book on Amazon. I spent the last week reading through it, and finished it last night.
For a decade I was a worship pastor in west Houston, but since August 2015 I’ve been a church planter in Baltimore (with the SEND Network). We “launched” (that is, began holding public weekly worship services) in March 2017, and that was the first time I had been tasked with preaching every single week. Needless to say, it’s been challenging and stretching, as well as exciting and rewarding.
I found PTMP very helpful in a number of ways, especially in the exhortation to find my own voice, and the technique of “arranging for tension.”
I wonder if you have some further resources available for demonstrating this technique. I am certainly guilty of tending to arrange sermons for explanation, with a very linear structure. (Here’s my main point; here’s the subpoints that support that point; here’s a review of the main point in conclusion). Your chapter on arranging for tension struck a chord with me, but I feel like I need some more examples of this being done. Do you have training videos online, or other resources you could point me toward that would help explain/expand this idea?
Thanks for your faithfulness to preach God’s word, and to train other preachers of God’s word to do it more effectively!
Hey Yancey,
Been waiting for the Kindle version. Is there an ETA on that?