John Osborn
The late John Osborn was Ministerial director of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and was active in conducting seminars on effective preaching.
Articles by John Osborn
Planned Program for Church Year
December 1940
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…
Why Continuing Education?
December 1975
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…
Feed Yourself First
September 1980
What's the big idea?
November 1980
Pseudo-Sermons
July 1980
Poverty in the pulpit
May 2006
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…
Bringing the sermon to a close
May 1981
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…
Moving together
March 1981
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…
Putting your sermon on target
January 1981
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…