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Author: Ronald J. Allen
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0827229933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of sermons by noted homileticians illustrates thirty-four distinct styles of contemporary and traditional preaching.
Author: Ronald J. Allen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780664253066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a practical model for developing sermons for occasions when the Bible offers little specific guidance for interpreting an issue, need, or situation. Ronald Allen describes why and how topical sermons should be used, discusses special occasions when they are appropriate, and outlines strategies for developing topical sermons, giving particular attention to controversial issues. The last chapter includes sample sermons by other preachers.
Author: Matthew D. Kim
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781433100048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis in-depth study on preaching to second generation Korean Americans, the first of its kind, is based on empirical and ethnographic fieldwork. Matthew D. Kim conducted surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews with Korean American pastors and second generation young adult respondents in three geographic regions of the United States: the Midwest, the West Coast, and the East Coast. His primary conceptual framework employs social psychologists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius' theory of possible selves to facilitate the process of congregational exegesis in the second generation Korean American church context. This book offers a new contextual homiletic model that enables Korean American preachers to engage in deeper levels of ethnic and cultural analysis in their sermonic preparation. Simultaneously, the author reconstructs conventional preaching roles of Korean American preachers and second generation listeners so that they may co-creatively imagine new possible selves that radically advance Christian mission and practice in the world. This book will serve as a primary or secondary source for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses on preaching, communication studies, ethnic and racial studies, cross-cultural ministry, or social psychology.
Author: Cleophus James LaRue
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780664258474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaRue provides important insights on why black preaching is strong and active, and connects with the real-life experiences of listeners. (Christian)
Author: Alyce M. McKenzie
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1611648963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can preachers ensure that their sermons continue to engage listeners in a world defined by visual media and the short, segmented delivery of information? Alyce McKenzie harnesses the element of drama and the human fascination with scenes to offer ministers a modern means of sermon development and delivery. McKenzie's core strategy is to invite listeners into scenes—whether from Scripture or contemporary life—and, once they are there, to point them toward the larger story of God's relationship with humankind. Creating such scenes unifies the whole process of preaching, she says, from the preacher's daily life observations to interpretation of scenes from Scripture, to sermon shaping, sequencing, and delivery. The process culminates in a specific understanding of the purpose of the sermon: to send listeners out into the scenes they'll play in their lives for the next week, equipped to act out their parts in ways that are kinder, more just, and more courageous than last week.
Author: John C. Holbert
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 162032217X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile commentaries continue to be published on the book of Revelation, few, if any, attempt to interpret the Apocalypse in light of the political, historical, and cultural setting of John's original audience. The purpose of Seven Congregations in a Roman Crucible is to provide fresh and illuminating exegesis of Revelation that takes seriously ancient literary and archaeological evidences. This book seeks to bring the reader into the world of John's Apocalypse with pictures of numerous sites and artifacts from the first and early second centuries AD. Moreover, the book also attempts to interpret John and his message through the lens of the Jewish prophetic tradition of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, and other pertinent Second Temple works. Thus John stands in the prophetic heritage of Israel in his attempt to challenge, threaten, admonish, and praise the seven churches of Roman Asia whose members are suffering at the hands of the idolatrous Graeco-Roman culture in which they reside.
Author: Marianne Gaarden
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1725277026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do listeners create meaning when hearing a sermon? In this cutting-edge homiletical study, Marianne Gaarden draws on sociological, psychological, and other empirical research to offer new perspectives and presents the notion of the Third Room of Preaching, the place where the preacher's words and the listener's prior experiences come together and new meaning emerges. The new research insights challenge conventional understandings of preaching and invite homileticians to reflect theologically on the implications for the sermon as an act of communication. In addition, the book includes an appendix that offers new perspectives on how to best educate and train preachers in light of that research.
Author: Jeffrey W. Frymire
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 166673277X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreaching from Inside the Story is a book that seeks to carve out an understanding of narrative preaching in an age where there is little agreement about its nature and practice. Capitalizing on the works of Craddock and Lowry, it seeks to find an expanded palette upon which the preacher may engage the larger canvas of narrative preaching. This book will engage the mind by introducing neuroscientific understandings of creativity; build upon the foundations of the philosophy of stories by engaging Aristotle’s foundational understanding of narrative; and renew the Lowry Loop by expanding this seminal work and how it should be understood in our current culture. Preaching from Inside the Story breaks new ground by encouraging preachers to move inside stories and tell them from the inside out providing a positive effect, thereby affording non-narrative preachers to connect with storytelling principles. Ultimately, it is filled with examples of how to do narrative in a very practical way. However, in showing these practical examples, the reader is involved in a deep analysis of those narrative sermons and how they fit into an overall narrative understanding of preaching. In the final analysis, it invites the reader to take a fresh journey into narrative preaching.
Author: Deron J. Biles
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1462751091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPastoral Ministry brings together the mandate of God, the needs of the sheep, and the model of the good Shepherd to uniquely inspire and equip you to fulfill your ministry as a shepherd.
Author: Richard L. Eslinger
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 068701297X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book is a follow-up to Eslinger's earlier A New Hearing, the standard text on the varieties of homiletical method since its publication in 1987."--BOOK JACKET.
