1. Too often sermons are like treadmills: Lots of work that takes us nowhere. Better for your sermon to be like an escalator: Move your people onward and upward in faith.
  2. Preachers, just because there is a placeholder carved out right there in the liturgy which says SERMON, that does not give us license to blather.
  3. The gathered pilgrims benefit from having a competent, compassionate preacher as a tour guide who can lead them through the wonders of God’s Word.
  4. When we celebrate ceremonies like the Palm Sunday procession, faith makes its way more deeply into our bones.
  5. Underlying the particular strategies of these missionaries was a more fundamental approach to proclamation, one contemporary preachers need to reclaim.

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