Trench Talk · Practical Shepherding
Ep. 283: The importance of pastoral application in sermons
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Contact us. We’d love to serve you Visit the Shepherd’ s House Give financially to support the work of helping pastors thrive Write a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Resources (02:51) Biblical Framework and Setting up the Topic (09:48) Balancing exposition and application (16:15) Keeping the congregation engaged in application (19:26) Thinking through application (21:26) Application from shepherding the flock (23:00) Beware of oversharing or abusing the pulpit (24:16) Sniper versus Shotgun (26:52) Encouragement to apply the text (28:22) Avoid laziness in preparing application (29:12) Get your applications from the text (30:17) Prayer