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4 Ways to Keep Students' Attention During Your Next Sermon

4 Ways to Keep Students’ Attention During Your Sermon

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Preaching

You don’t want to waste your time delivering sermons that don’t stick with your students. In this post, I share four practical ways to keep their interest and reboot their attention while your preaching.

Assume They’re in the Room (How to Address Different Types of Students with Your Message)

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Preaching

When you deliver your message, you have to bend the application of it to meet students where they’re at. This post features a video in which I explain three ways to do exactly that.

A Plea for Practical Theology (An Open Letter to Youth Pastors)

A Plea for Practical Theology (An Open Letter to Youth Pastors)

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Personal Development, Preaching, Programs, Strategy, Trends

In the wake of recent Christian deconversion stories, I felt compelled to post this open letter that I included in my book, Varsity Faith. It’s a plea for practical theology to make its way into youth ministry.

How to Annihilate Your Public Speaking Anxiety

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Preaching

When you’re asked to preach in “big church,” to adults, you clam up. You step up to the pulpit and your heart starts to pound in your chest. What’s the deal?

3 Assumptions That Can Kill Your Sermons

3 Assumptions That Can Kill Your Sermons

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Preaching

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, no more so than in your sermons. This post names 3 common assumptions that have the potential to make your sermons dead on arrival.

3 Reasons Why Sermons Still Matter in Youth Ministry

3 Reasons Why Sermons Still Matter in Youth Ministry

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Preaching

Your sermon – the verses you choose and illustrations you use – can determine the direction of your students’ lives for years to come. Here’s how to make them count…

30 Slides in a 15-Minute Sermon

Why I Use 30 Slides in a 15-Minute Sermon (and You Should Too)

Posted on Trevor Hamaker2 CommentsPosted in Preaching

Do your students look bored when you speak? Do they get distracted? You need to add more slides to your sermon because images communicate in ways that words can’t.

5 Essential Moves to Make Your Messages Stick

5 Essential Moves to Make Your Messages Stick

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Preaching

Sermons are a series of moves. How you make your moves will determine whether or not your students will listen to and learn from what you say.

4 Public Speaking Mistakes New Youth Pastors Make

Posted on Trevor HamakerPosted in Preaching

Recently, I coached a seminary student and part-time youth pastor who was struggling with speaking. In this post, I lay out the issues he had and the solutions I recommended to him.

How to Use an iPad for Preaching

Posted on Trevor Hamaker4 CommentsPosted in Preaching

Do you want to know the best way to use an iPad for preaching? This post gives you step-by-step instructions for how to do it. It’s time to go paperless with your sermons!

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