John Osborn

Wherever the gospel is preached, some will accept it. There are places, however, where it is very difficult for a preacher to baptize his converts because of the intolerance of those who oppose the mes­sage. For many…

In this sentence from the ''Testimonies," the importance of organization is stressed: "Time is short, and our forces must be organized to do a larger work."—Vol. IX, p. 27. There is no stereotyped method of or­ganizing…

A PROFESSOR in the Harvard Medical School informed first-year medical students that half the information they would receive in medicine during their four years would be obsolete by the time they completed their degree. "The trouble is," he…

The late John Osborn was noted for his interest in helping to build ministers. This was true of him as a pastor and evangelist, as an administrator, and in a special way during the years he served as Ministerial…

All the discussion of sermon preparation and preaching in previous articles of this series has been converging on the really important part of the whole process—the conclusion.

If a salesman delivers an impressive sales talk, but…

Just as a human body has joints knees, ankles, elbows, wrists, hips, and shoulders—that make movement possible, so the sermon must also have joints that allow movement, and these are called transitions. Whenever you move from one part of…

The preceding article in this series (November, 1980) pointed out that by analyzing a preaching portion of Scripture we discover what is its subject, the basic teaching that covers it like a tent. This subject, then, becomes the main thrust…