Comments on: Check out https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/05/07/check-out-344/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: David Murray https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/05/07/check-out-344/#comment-22785 Thu, 09 May 2013 23:22:57 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=13145#comment-22785 I know what you’re saying Dan. I agree that the content is the most important. However, I’m increasingly seeing that there are really basic communication skills that are lacking in men that have all the content you could want. The result is that the content is not being received. It is quite simple, and yet it’s the lack of the simple basics of communication that is having a detrimental effect on preaching and hearing.

]]> By: Dan N https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/05/07/check-out-344/#comment-22737 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:34:18 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=13145#comment-22737 Dr. Murray, I’m curious as to what you think about the list of 21 skills of great preachers. For my part, I’d have to say that for as much experience as the writer says he had, I was not terribly impressed.

Certainly, some oral communication skills can aid the delivery of a sermon; but while I found myself to agree with some items on his list, one could learn many if not most of these same things from Toastmasters. Unless it is implicit within the writer’s use of the word “content”, where on the list is the preacher’s handling of the Word, and his ability to convey biblical truth to his people? Sadly, my former pastor told me that at his seminary, there was quite a lot more attention paid to presentation than to content, even though from my understanding it is a fairly reputable school that has produced some very good pastors.

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