One resource that I am reading through is Andy Stanley’s Communicating for a Change. This quick narrative read clearly gives insight to simple steps to help in sermon/lesson preparation and delivery.
A critical issue here is, do you really think about your message? I know that sounds simple, but do you think about your message/lesson and how it is coming across? Is it understandable? Applicable? While not the only book on speaking, and not the only way of speaking/preaching, a read like this at least helps me pull out of some deep groves I may be stuck in.
Ray, enjoyed the book too … the two parts of the book were interesting and a way to hammer home his point. He’s got a neat formula too about how he prepares his message.