Dave Burke has a couple of excellent articles on using PowerPoint on his website, they are well worth reading if you are tempted to use Powerpoint to illustrate any talks, sermons or presentations you have to give:
by all means use the presentation templates supplied with PowerPoint – but only if you want your slides to be unreadable and blend in with the décor of the conference room. This may well suit your purposes; it’s not everyone that has a vital message to communicate!
Good thought provoking stuff!
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These are indeed helpful. I have been preaching using powerpoint for quite a while now and fallen into many of the pitfalls. I came to these articles a couple of weeks ago via this blog and they helped me communicate much more effectively in my last sermon. For a while now I have jumped straight from Exegesis to Powerpoint but felt somehow guilty about not preparing “the talk” in between. Now I don’t have to feel guilty!
By the way does anyone have experience of how best to combine mp3 recorded sermons with PowerPoint for web-publication – preferably without spending money