Here’s a simple little trick that will bless your hearers more than you can imagine:
Memorize the very first thing and the very last thing that you will say in your sermon.
That’s it.
Seems so easy, right?
But do you do this?
Memorizing the first thing you will say and the last thing you will say brings clarity to the rest of your sermon.
The beginning and the end: memorize ’em.
That’s all.
(Thanks to Tony Jones for first sharing this insight at Peter Rollins’ Soapbox event.)