Effective First-Person Biblical Preaching
Effective First-Person Biblical Preaching

Author: J. Kent Edwards

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2009-05-26

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0310314550

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The Steps from Text to Narrative SermonPresenting biblically centered sermons in a new,creative genrePastors and teachers are always on the lookout for newways to expand the effectiveness of their preaching.Sermons delivered in the first-person point of view canweave the power of story and drama into the biblicalteaching, making familiar—and not-so-familiar—characters and situations come to life. This book helpsstudents and pastors understand how first-personsermons can be preached with biblical integrity. Itextends Haddon Robinson’s “big idea” philosophy ofpreaching to this new genre.J. Kent Edwards takes a practical approach as he walksreaders through the steps needed for creating sermonsthat are faithful to the text and engaging to the listener.Examples and worksheets enable readers to apply thisunique approach to one of their own sermons. The bookincludes a CD-ROM with a video sample of first-personnarrative preaching.

Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching
Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching

Author: Joel B. Green

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2003-12-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 144120654X

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There is often an unfortunate division between the technical work of biblical scholars and the practical work of preachers who construct sermons each week. These two fields of study, which ought to be mutually informed and supportive, are more often practically divided by divergent methods, interests, and goals. Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching aims to bridge that divide. Using narrative as an organizing theme, the contributors work through the New Testament offering examples of how interpretation can rightly inform proclamation. Three pairs of chapters feature an exemplary reading by a New Testament scholar followed by a sermon informed by that reading. Introductory and concluding chapters provide guidance for application of the model. Pastors and seminarians will find here a uniquely practical work that will help them with both the reading and preaching of Scripture.

Preaching the Story
Preaching the Story

Author: Jeffrey W. Frymire

Publisher: Warner Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781593171315

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Preaching the Story explains why the attentiveness of your congregation rises when you become a sacred storyteller. It explores why communication is more effective when your sermons are no longer lectures but stories. In fact, it explains how to deliver your entire sermon in story form.

Telling God's Story
Telling God's Story

Author: John W. Wright

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2007-04-16

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0830827404

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John W. Wright presents a new model of preaching that aims to connect the biblical text with a congregation so that they are formed into a true Christian community.

Preaching
Preaching

Author: Fred B. Craddock

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0687659949

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The standard textbook on the art and craft of preaching, with a new Foreword by Thomas G. Long.

Preaching
Preaching

Author: Calvin Miller

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1441201238

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Because they are speaking to a younger society more attuned to lively dialogue and visual images, pastors need a fresh wineskin for a timeless message of redemption. Calvin Miller, who has preached and equipped preachers for decades, offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors to deliver the heart of the gospel via the Jesus-endorsed vessel of compelling storytelling. For the working pastor, Miller's crash course on preaching is a welcomed study. Now available in trade paper.

Privilege the Text!
Privilege the Text!

Author: Abraham Kuruvilla

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0802485022

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Privilege the Text! spans the conceptual gap between biblical text and life application by providing a rigorous theological hermeneutic for preaching. Kuruvilla describes the theological entity that is the intermediary between ancient text and modern audience, and defines its crucial function in determining valid application. Based on this hermeneutic, he submits a new mode of reading Scripture for preaching: a Christiconic interpretation of the biblical text, a hermeneutically robust way to understand the depiction of the Second Person of the Trinity in Scripture. In addition, Kuruvilla’s work provides a substantive theology of spiritual formation through preaching: what it means to obey God, the Christian’s responsibility to undertake “faith-full” obedience to divine demand, and the incentives for such obedience—all integral to understanding the sermonic movement from text to application. Privilege the Text! promises to be useful not only for preachers, and students and teachers of homiletics, but for all who are interested in the exposition of Scripture that culminates in application for the glory of God.

Preaching to Connect Truth to Life
Preaching to Connect Truth to Life

Author: Benjamin Kelley

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780898275285

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Pastor Benji Kelley calls today's professional and lay preachers back to a lost art in many pulpits: narrative preaching. While examining the strengths and effectiveness of all traditional preaching styles, he particularly shows how--in every form of preaching--story can profoundly connect truth to any life . . . especially for the majority of today's disconnected audiences. This book is a powerful tool for both veteran and beginning preachers who want to understand, empathize with, and relevantly engage the congregations of this day and age.

The Homiletical Beat
The Homiletical Beat

Author: Dr. Eugene L. Lowry

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1426761589

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Promoting the idea of sermon as narrative, Eugene Lowry's first book, The Homiletical Plot, became one of the most influential preaching books of the latter part of the 20th century. While the sermon as narrative has become conventional preaching wisdom, it is largely misunderstood. Sermons are, by definition, narratives and as such, they have plots. At the same time, the sermon is not a story. While similar in many ways, narratives and stories are distinct. Therefore, to think of narrative preaching as merely one of many homiletical styles is to misunderstand and reduce the nature of the sermon. The sermon is more than just an option for the preacher; rather, it is, by definition, a narrative because it happens in time, not in space. This changes everything because the sermon ceases to be something a preacher constructs, like a thesis or even a painting. Instead, it is more like a piece of music - something a preacher plays within intuitively, to a constant beat - time after time, week after week. In light of this revelation, what are new strategic aims for sermon preparation and delivery?