The Preaching Life

The Preaching Life

Author: Barbara Brown Taylor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 156101074X

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Like Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Taylor emphasizes the holy dimensions of ordinary life and describes the essentials of faith with insight and humor, touching on the vocations, imagination, worship, sacraments, ministry and the Bible as they relate to the life of faith.


Backstory Preaching

Backstory Preaching

Author: Lisa Cressman

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0814645380

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Instead of being a dour task on the checklist, what if the process of homily prep renewed you? Instead of feeling insecure about your message, what if your skills made you confident to preach a consistently clear message of Good News, authentic to you, relevant to your listeners, holding their attention and inviting transformation? Backstory Preaching: Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft shows you how. By integrating your life and spirituality with the practical skills necessary for effective preaching, you can move beyond the boredom, stress, or insecurity of preaching so it is no longer you who preach but Christ who preaches in you. By connecting with God in the midst of your sermon prep, the Gospel will be spread deeper and further. God’s joy—and yours—will be made complete.


Performance in Preaching (Engaging Worship)

Performance in Preaching (Engaging Worship)

Author: Jana Childers

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2008-11-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1585588202

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This volume, which launches the Engaging Worship series from Fuller Theological Seminary's Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts, offers a unique study of sermon delivery. While many books offer advice on how to prepare, write, and preach a sermon, this volume is distinctive in approaching the subject from the perspective of performance. The authors, who teach at a variety of seminaries and divinity schools across the nation, examine how the sermon can bring God's word to life for the congregation. In that sense, they consider the idea of performance from a wide range of theological, artistic, and musical viewpoints. These thoughtful essays will engage clergy and students with new ways of looking at the art of preaching.


The Gospel People Don't Want to Hear

The Gospel People Don't Want to Hear

Author: Lisa Cressman

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1506456405

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Lisa Cressman, founder of Backstory Preaching, offers preachers tools to craft difficult sermon messages that can be heard. The gospel changes lives, but to do that it must first be heard. For it to be heard, people have to trust they are "seen" and their concerns and fears are acknowledged. They have to feel their perspectives are real, valid, and respected. Preachers have a difficult message to preach, a message many will not want to hear: new life always emerges from death. Cressman shows preachers how to craft sermons with the right tone and how to have the courage to say what you're called to say. Part 1 of the book provides the preparatory work needed before crafting those difficult sermon messages. Here the focus is on how preachers prepare themselves, build relationships of mutual trust with listeners, and understand and appropriately use authority and leadership to proclaim the gospel. Part 2 focuses on the sermon itself with suggestions on what to say and how to say it. The preacher will find new tools and sharpen existing ones to preach difficult messages with empathy, compassion, and skill.


Spiritual Life

Spiritual Life

Author: John H. Westerhoff

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780664255008

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Is it possible for preachers and teachers to have a fully effective ministry if their personal spiritual lives are not vibrant? Leading Christian educator Westerhoff says it is not, and offers this resource to help preachers and teachers revitalize their lives and ministries.


Preaching that Matters

Preaching that Matters

Author: Stephen Farris

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780664257590

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Preaching is the art of building a bridge in the hearer's mind from the ancient world of the biblical text to the realities of our daily lives. Throughout this book, Stephen Farris offers splendid insights into ways that the Bible can connect with modern life and gives specific guidance to preachers on how to make these connections happen. This is a highly practical book for ministers and for classroom use.


Preaching and Teaching the Last Things

Preaching and Teaching the Last Things

Author: Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0801039274

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A distinguished evangelical Old Testament scholar offers students, teachers, and pastors his signature guidance for expositing Old Testament eschatological texts.


Practicing the Preaching Life

Practicing the Preaching Life

Author: David B. Ward

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 150185495X

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Preaching is a way of life that can be beautiful and good; however, It can also be anxious, self-focused, and destructive. Preachers and teachers of preaching need a holistic view of preaching that not only paints the way to good preaching, but also to good living. They need a comprehensive practical theology of preaching that combines the ‘why’ and the ‘what’ with the ‘how’ and 'whom’ of preaching. Practicing the Preaching Life unites Christian practices, contextual virtues, and the best of homiletical pedagogy to pave the way to a beautiful preaching life. Preaching is best learned as a formative Christian practice embedded within a web of other Christian practices that form a way of life from which great sermons emerge. Therefore, preaching requires not only a way of speaking well, but also a way of living well. This embedded nature of preaching requires the enrollment of Christian practices in the formation of the preacher and the pursuit of contextual virtues for preaching that avoid cultural relativism on the one hand and cultural imperialism on the other. These requirements lead to a new vision for the preaching classroom, the rhythms of the preaching life, and the definition of what it means to be a good preacher.


Preaching That Changes Lives

Preaching That Changes Lives

Author: Michael Fabarez

Publisher:

Published: 2005-09-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597523684

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Beyond the what and how of preaching is the all-important why of preaching. Mike Fabarez contends persuasively that unless a sermon makes a difference in the lives of its hearers, the preacher and the congregation have missed the point. No matter how much information is communicated, unless application is central throughout the message, the sermon has failed to be biblical. In fifteen brief chapters, the author demonstrates how the goal of changing lives can permeate the planning, preparation, presentation, and pastoral follow-through of every sermon. And in the process, the preacher's life will be changed, too. Here is a book that is accessible, brief, highly practical, and ultimately life-changing. It includes: -a Prayer Guide for Preaching -a Sample Message Prep Prayer Team Schedule -a Preaching Evaluation form