Preaching category: 634 books
Preaching Politics
Proclaiming Jesus in an Age of Money, Power, and Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Religion, politics, and money. Three things you're never supposed to discuss in polite company. But what if you're a pastor? Forget red state/blue state divisions, what happens when your church members disagree about politics? In this age of prosperity preaching, how do you preach, "You cannot...
Preaching Christ from Daniel
Foundations for Expository Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In Preaching Christ from Daniel Sidney Greidanus shows preachers and teachers how to prepare expository messages from the six narratives and four visions in the book of Daniel. Using the most up-to-date biblical scholarship, Greidanus addresses foundational issues such as the date of composition,...
by Craig A. Satterlee, Lester Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Creative preaching can help you move the sacraments to the center of your congregation's spirituality by making scripture, personal experience, and the sacraments intersect in such a way that a wealth of meanings surfaces. Satterlee and Ruth seek to expand the range of meanings and associations people...
by G. Campbell Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
If there is any excuse for this book it is that it is an attempt to answer a question that I have been asked, certainly hundreds of times during the course of my work of preaching. The question has taken many forms, but it is essentially the same. It is an enquiry concerning methods of preparation...
by Fred B. Craddock
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A standard textbook on the art and craft of preaching. Craddock weaves history, theology, and hermeneutics into an exhaustive text on sermon preparation and preaching.
Painstakingly prepared for seminary students and clergy, this book answers the fundamental question: How does one prepare and...
It's All in How You Tell It
Preaching First-Person Expository Messages
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Pastors are continually looking for resources to make their preaching more powerful and culturally relevant. Old-school models based on three-point outlines do not resonate with today's churchgoers, who are accustomed to media-driven modes of expression.
It's All in How You Tell It provides the tools...
The Mission of Preaching
Equipping the Community for Faithful Witness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
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Imaginative Preaching
Praying the Scriptures so God Can Speak through You
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
From generation-to-generation there has been an anguished cry from preachers about preaching – there is no imagination! The Scriptures present the wondrous hope and vision of “Kingdom Come” and yet contemporary preaching can often be mute and blind by comparison. This book explores what is possible...
The Kerygmatic Spirit
Apostolic Preaching in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This collection of fifteen sermons by one of the leading pentecostal theologians today provides insight into the form, style, and content of preaching in the pentecostal tradition while also being suggestive of normative homiletical theory and practice. The Kergymatic Spirit argues that Spirit-empowered...
A Little Handbook for Preachers
Ten Practical Ways to a Better Sermon by Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
No function of the pastor is as visible and stress inducing as preaching. Being a good preacher requires learning the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical skills needed to effectively share God's word with a congregation. It demands a commitment to the craft of preaching. But few pastors feel...
Ways of the Word
Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose...
Preaching to Multiethnic Congregation
Positive Marginality as a Homiletical Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The impact of globalization is widespread, affecting every sector of society, and the Church is not immune from such influence. Churches are awakening to diversifying pews and finding it difficult to insist on strict homogeneity. This shift in congregational composition has raised homiletical challenges...
Expositional Preaching
How We Speak God's Word Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
What makes for good preaching?
In this accessible volume—written for preachers and preachers in training—pastor David Helm outlines what must be believed and accomplished to become a faithful expositor of God’s Word.
In addition to offering practical, step-by-step guidance for...
by William Brosend
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
While comedian Stephen Colbert was remarkably prescient some years ago when he introduced the word “truthiness” to our vocabulary, it was presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway who told us that there are “alternative facts” abroad in the land. Rarely has such an offhand comment so captured...