How to Get Your Sermon Heard is an interdenominational textbook for all who preach shows how to prepare scripture-based sermons that will move people to to do God's work in today's world. In How to Get Your Sermon Heard, Hethcock demonstrates ways to interpret texts from the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John, the Old Testament, Psalms, and the Revelation to John the Divine, among others--all with clear explanations linked to sermons. Complete sermons also illustrate chapters on how to preach at marriages, at funerals, and on the parables. Hethcock shows how to spend less time preparing more effective sermons, preach sermons that make their point more clearly, and create sermons that will capture listeners' minds and hearts as they experience the Word of God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and God's love. William Hethcock was ordained an Episcopal priest after studying at General Theological Seminary in New York. He served congregations in Greensboro and Durham, NC, and Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. At the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, Professor Hethcock was director of field education and taught homiletics. After retiring from Sewanee, he taught homiletics at Virginia Theological Seminary.