Clergy Guide to Sermon Preparation: Including 40 Sermon Ideas and Outlines - Paperback

by John Zehring (Author)

"Clergy Guide to Sermon Preparation" is designed for seasoned clergy who are always on the lookout for new ideas. Included are tips for preparing sermons, a special section on "How to Keep Weeks Ahead... and why you should" and forty sermon ideas and outlines, rich with illustrations, stories, and quotations to help apply the bible's teachings to the everyday lives and needs of your listeners.

Author Biography

John Zehring has served United Church of Christ congregations for twenty-two years as Senior Pastor in Massachusetts (Andover), Rhode Island (Kingston), and Maine (Augusta) and as an Interim Pastor (Arlington, MA). Prior to parish ministry, he served in higher education for more than two decades, primarily in development and institutional advancement, as a dean of students, director of career planning and placement, professor of public speaking and as a vice president at a seminary and at a college. He is the author of more than two dozen books and eBooks. John is married to his high school sweetheart Donna and they have two children and five grandchildren. He lives in two places, in central Massachusetts and by the sea in Maine where he and Donna enjoy kayaking, skiing, snowshoeing, gardening, using favorite tools, taking rides, travel and most of all being with family, friends and neighbors.