Show Don't Tell: Luke 13:10-17
Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 13:10-17
This is a show dont tell prompt on homiletics and preaching technique for adults.
Instead of saying "Jesus healed a crippled woman on the Sabbath," see eighteen years straighten. On a Sabbath Jesus is teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman is there who has been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She is bent over and cannot straighten up at all. Eighteen years looking at the ground. When Jesus sees her, he calls her forward: "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity."…
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