Preaching to a Postmodern World
Preaching to a Postmodern World

Author: Graham M. Johnston

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2001-07-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1441201505

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While growing churches dot our urban centers and country landscapes, church-goers and students today are actually less likely to maintain a Christian worldview than in the past. In fact, the majority of society does not even believe in objective truth. A minister out of touch with this culture is like an uninformed missionary trying to teach in a foreign country. To communicate God's Word effectively in the twenty-first century, teachers need to know how to connect with and confront an audience of postmodern listeners. In Preaching to a Postmodern World, Johnston shows pastors, seminary students, professors, lay teachers, and church leaders can reach the present age without selling out to it. The book discusses how to: • distinguish between modernism and postmodernism • understand postmodern worldviews • change the style of preaching without compromising the substance • take advantage of new opportunities provided by the cultural shift • show an inattentive society the relevance of God's truth The author's keen insights into contemporary pop and media culture also help equip speakers to address today's listeners with clarity and relevance.

Confessing Jesus Christ
Confessing Jesus Christ

Author: David J. Lose

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2003-03-04

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780802849830

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With its relentless insistence that there is no reality beyond that which we construct, postmodern thought questions the presuppositions of many disciplines, including homiletics. Offering a lively description of the postmodern worldview and its implications for Christian faith, Confessing Jesus Christ by David Lose teaches preachers how to rise to the challenges posed by our postmodern world. Few if any books on preaching offer such a comprehensive investigation of postmodern thought or yield such a wealth of insights for relevant Christian proclamation. Significantly, Lose sees postmodernism not primarily as an obstacle to the church but as an opportunity for it to stand once again on faith alone rather than on attempts to prove the faith. According to Lose, preaching that seeks to be both faithful to the Christian tradition and responsive to our pluralistic, postmodern context is best understood as the public practice of confessing faith in Jesus Christ. He explores the practical implications of a confessional homiletic for preaching and also provides concrete methods for preparing sermons that meaningfully bridge biblical texts and contemporary congregations.

Apologetic Preaching
Apologetic Preaching

Author: Craig A. Loscalzo

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2000-03-14

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780830815753

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Craig Loscalzo gives down-to-earth advice on how to communicate clearly and compellingly to a world that does not want to hear about morality, sin, evil, judgment or commitment. He gives straightforward explanations of the changes taking place all around us, including brief sample sermons in each chapter.

Preaching to a Post-Everything World
Preaching to a Post-Everything World

Author: Zack Eswine

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1441201602

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Zack Eswine starts this unique pastoral resource with a captivating question: Could I now reach who I once was? Challenging the idea that today's preachers must do away with biblical or expository preaching if they are to reach non-Christian people, Eswine offers a way of preaching that embraces biblical exposition in missional terms. Recognizing all of the different cultural situations in which the gospel must be preached, he gives preachers practical advice on preaching in a global context while remaining faithful to the Bible. Pastors, seminarians, and church and ministry leaders who speak in various contexts will welcome this fresh, thoughtful examination of bringing the Word to today's multi-everything, post-everything world.

Preaching at the Crossroads
Preaching at the Crossroads

Author: David Lose

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0800699734

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The world is changing, and preaching needs to do the same. With that change, the notion of truth need not be surrendered in a postmodern age, but it must be approached differently. David Lose argues that preaching is a confession made openly for the hearers to embrace and engage in the midst of the real lived world they experience.

Preaching for Bodybuilding
Preaching for Bodybuilding

Author: Joel R. Breidenbaugh

Publisher:

Published: 2010-07-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780990781677

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How many times have you heard a sermon and walked away wanting more? How many times have you preached a message and wished you could have gone deeper into the text without leaving your audience scratching their heads? In Preaching for Bodybuilding, Joel Breidenbaugh, senior pastor and professor of homiletics, shows how the most faithful preaching begins by developing the preacher, who then proclaims God's message to listeners and helps them build their spiritual bodies into the image of Christ. Just as successful bodybuilders use workouts and planning, successful preachers must study and practice. Breidenbaugh traces doctrinal preaching and exposition through history, provides definitional clarity, surveys biblical examples, offers theological aids, shares practical advice and sample sermons, and reveals the beneficial elements of preparing and delivering doctrinal expository preaching, which can, and should, address the contemporary world while remaining rooted in theology. Recent studies reveal many evangelicals are biblically illiterate and theologically ignorant, which has inevitably been passed down by those occupying the pulpit. Preaching for Bodybuilding shows preachers how to integrate the two disciplines of theology and exposition and return to the Scriptures and its models, strengthening their preaching and helping the spiritual bodies of their audience grow. So, are you ready for a workout?

The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World
The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World

Author: John Piper

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781581349221

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Believers who wish to thrive in a postmodern world must cling to the joy, truth, and love that comes only from understanding Christ and his ultimate purpose in this world.

Go Ye into the Postmodern World and Preach the Gospel to Every Creature
Go Ye into the Postmodern World and Preach the Gospel to Every Creature

Author: Rev. Robert M. Vallee, Ph.D

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1647023394

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Go Ye Into the Postmodern World and Preach the Gospel to Every Creature By: Rev. Robert M. Vallee Ph.D Dealing with rhetoric, preaching, spirituality, food, and film, Rev. Robert M. Vallee, Ph.D’s story is sure to educate you on many different topics. Such advice and lessons will be useful to those inspiring to be preachers, speakers, or just a general audience who is interested in spirituality and religion.

Preaching Christ in a Postmodern Culture
Preaching Christ in a Postmodern Culture

Author: K. A. Beville

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2010-04-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 144382187X

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Starting with some observations relating to shifts in ecclesiology and identifying them as a move beyond contextualization to syncretism this work goes on to assess the feasibility of preaching in a postmodern culture which rejects both the idea of absolute truth and authority used as power. It traces the historical and philosophical development of postmodernism. The Enlightenment project is deemed to have failed and Christianity is perceived as an oppressive metanarrative. In a world that is becoming increasingly sceptical and where preaching practitioners are becoming disillusioned this book offers some guidelines about preaching to postmoderns. In a relational age rationality is impotent, but the author distinguishes between authoritative and authoritarian preaching allowing hope for the survival of the homiletic task. Humility is presented as preferable to certitude and persuasion is redefined. The author suggests using an inductive mode of communication as a means of engaging postmodern listeners. He signposts a way forward in the labyrinthine complexity of the new paradigm and demonstrates that the homiletic task is still feasible. Thus this book will be of interest to teachers and students of theology as well as pastors desiring to develop a new apologetic strategy.