Sermon Rating

I don't know how I quantify or qualify how good a sermon is. I don't know how one should either. There is the definite in which you must make sure it is accurate to what the Bible teaches, but what else comes into play. Does overall appeal matter? What about hitting the individual in the situation they are in, but leaving out the broad community? How much of the "congregation" needs to be impacted by a sermon for it to be considered good? Does it require that parts of it be easily remembered, or clearly applicable? What can people use to quantify and/or qualify how good a sermon is?

If I told you I had heard a good sermon, what do you assume is true about it?

I'm lucky enough to be asking these questions not because I'm trying to write a "good sermon" or because I think that following some formula will get a preacher there, but because I heard one today. I left church this morning thinking, that's the best sermon I've heard in a long time.

I know that some of the reasons in my head were because of my own personal situation, but I also thought it was good for other reasons.

What things do you think through when you evaluate if something is good?