title: Visualizing the Sermon: Preaching Without Notes
author: Hugh Litchfield
description: Litchfield presents a four-stage process in learning to preach without notes -- simplifying the sermon, picturing the sermon, imaging the sermon, and absorbing the sermon.
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  Twenty-Five Village Sermons
  
    
    
  SERMON I. GOD'S WORLD  
    
  SERMON II. RELIGION NOT GODLINESS  
    
  SERMON III. LIFE AND DEATH  
    
  SERMON IV. THE WORK OF GOD'S SPIRIT  
    
  SERMON V. FAITH  
    
  SERMON VI. THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH  
    
  SERMON VII. RETRIBUTION  
    
  SERMON VIII. SELF-DESTRUCTION  
    
  SERMON IX. HELL ON EARTH  
    
  SERMON X. NOAH'S JUSTICE  
    
  [SERMON XI. THE NOACHIC COVENANT](Twenty-
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  [SERMON XII. ABRAHAM'S FAITH](Twenty-
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  [SERMON XIII. ABRAHAM'S OBEDIENCE](Twenty-
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  [SERMON XIV. OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN](Twenty-
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  [SERMON XV. THE TRANSFIGURATION](Twenty-
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  [SERMON XVI. THE CRUCIFIXION](Twenty-
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