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6 Neuroscience Insights that can Make a Pastor’s Sermons Stickier

1 Comment / Pastors, Preaching, Sermons / By Charles Stone

I received an executive master’s degree in the neuroscience of leadership a few years ago and learned so much. I just completed a graduate certificate in Mind, Brain, and Teaching from Johns Hopkins University and learned a boatload there. Christian leaders and pastors can learn much from the latest neuroscience discoveries about the brain. Neuroscientists have discovered that […]

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7 Keys to Help Church People Remember your Sermon Better

2 Comments / communication, Pastors, Preaching, Sermons / By Charles Stone

As a pastor I’ve been trained how to create a sermon so that it’s theologically sound (good hermeneutics) and applicable to the listener (good homiletics). However, seminary never taught me how I might help church people listen better and retain what they hear in a sermon. In the last few decades neuroscientists have learned much

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9 Insights about Adult Learning every Pastor should Know

1 Comment / communication, Ministry, Pastors, Preaching, Sermons / By Charles Stone

Several years ago I took a 13-week intensive class on how to coach through the Professional Christian Coaching Institute. One of my teachers, Anne Denmark, professionally coaches church leaders and trains speakers. As a highly credentialed and experienced coach she shares her insights on her blog. During one class she shared nine basic principles on adult learning. As I read them I

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5 Questions Pastors Neglect in Sermon Prep

3 Comments / communication, Ministry, Neuroleadership, Pastors, Preaching, Sermons / By Charles Stone

A while back I read the book Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions by Dr. Carmen Simon. It is probably THE best book on communication I’ve ever read. Every pastor and communicator should read the book. Really! Dr. Simon is uber-smart (two PhD’s), yet she writes on a practical level. I learned a boatload

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4 Tips that will Make your Presentations, Talks, and Sermons Sticky

7 Comments / Pastors, Preaching, Sermons / By Charles Stone

If you are a pastor or a leader, you deliver sermons, talks, and presentations. And you probably spend significant time preparing them. So it makes sense to deliver them in ways that make them sticky, that is, stick in the listeners’ minds and hearts. In this post I share some science based insight to consider as

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6 Neuroscience Insights that can Make a Pastor’s Sermons Stickier

7 Keys to Help Church People Remember your Sermon Better

9 Insights about Adult Learning every Pastor should Know

5 Questions Pastors Neglect in Sermon Prep

4 Tips that will Make your Presentations, Talks, and Sermons Sticky

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