In addition, this version comes with a physical user's guide. This is a very handy tool since using the table of contents in the help index takes up a significant amount of on-screen space. Every function is listed right in the table of contents, so you don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out the software's features.
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PREACHING
How to Preach a Sermon
Did you ever wish you could take a homiletics class with one of the best? Well, with this software you can take it with six! There are video features of Haddon Robinson, Bryan Chapell, D. Stuart Briscoe, Joseph Stowell, Bob Smith and Harry Shields.
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Not only do I recommend this as a great refresher course for the seasoned veteran, but as an excellent tool that you can share with parishioners who sense a call to preach. And it will serve as a beneficial supplement for students currently enrolled in homiletics courses.
The subtitle of this software is "An Electric Guide from Formation to Delivery," and it is just as it states. How to Preach a Sermon utilizes principles from two best-selling homiletics texts, Biblical Preaching by Haddon Robinson and Christ-centered Preaching by Bryan Chapell. Preaching has featured interviews with both Robinson and Chapell this year, and their books continue to gain popularity as texts for seminary homiletics classes.
The contents of the program are broken down into six major sections: Formulating the Big Idea, Framing the Outline, Applying the Text, Illustrating the Sermon, Beginning and Ending and The Delivery. You can read along as you listen to the audio clips in each section, utilizing two senses for better comprehension and retention. Keywords are even highlighted and linked so that you can review suggested readings. After each major section there is a pop quiz that helps to re-emphasize major principles (and it'll make you feel like you're in the classroom again!).
One more plus of How to Preach a Sermon is the price. This software retails for $24.99, and I don't know of a homiletics course anywhere that is more affordable.
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The Olford Expository Preaching CD
This software comes from one of the premier teachers of expository preaching, Stephen Olford. Olford, who is a Senior Consulting Editor of Preaching, has devoted much of his life to equipping preachers at his Center for Biblical Preaching. With this software you can learn and utilize many of the principles and tools you would gain by attending the Center.
The Stephen Olford Center for Biblical Preaching has teamed up with iExalt's Bible study software, WORDsearch, to bring you this expository preaching CD. There is a five-minute video introduction given by Olford as well as five of his audio sermons from the "Meet These Men Series." In addition there are seven complete volumes of expository preaching outlines as well as three of Olford's books: Heart Cry for Revival, Inviting People to Christ and Proclaiming the Good News.
