Resources for the webinar “Speaking to the Whole Room: Tips on Intergenerational Preaching” with presenters Mark Jefferson and Sarah Bentley Allred, hosted by Sarah Stonesifer.

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One Church, Four Generations

• The challenge facing today’s church is simultaneous and effective ministry to people of four widely divergent generations. More than at any time in history, pastors must plan programs that will appeal to a mosaic of groups and subgroups. This updated edition of Three Generations: Riding the Waves of Change in Your Church adds an entirely new section on Bridgers, the youngest generation and perhaps the most difficult one to reach for Christ

Preaching without Notes

• In this important book, Webb makes two central claims. First, that effective preaching without a manuscript is not a matter of talent as much as it is a matter of preparation. Preachers can learn the practices and disciplines that make it possible to deliver articulate, thoughtfully crafted sermons, not from a written page, but as a natural, spontaneous act of oral communication. Throughout the book, the author offers specific examples including a transcript of a sermon preached without manuscript or notes. Second, that the payoff of learning to preach without a manuscript is nothing less than sermons that more effectively and engagingly give witness to the good news.

Four Pages of the Sermon: A Guide to Biblical Preaching

• Doing justice to the complexity of the preaching task and the questions that underlie it, Wilson organizes both the preparation and the content of the sermon around its “four pages.”  Each “page” addresses a different theological and creative component of what happens in any sermon. Page One presents the trouble or conflict that takes place in or that underscores the biblical text itself.  Page Two looks at similar conflict–sin or brokenness–in our own time.  Page Three returns to the Bible to identify where God is at work in or behind the text–in other words, to discover the good news.  Page Four points to God at work in our world, particularly in relation to the situations described in Page Two.