Preaching category: 634 books
Backstory Preaching
Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
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...
The Sermon without End
A Conversational Approach to Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A New Model for Post-Apologetic Preaching in a Pluralistic World.
The relationship between preaching and the public sphere has long been debated. Three different theological approaches tend to dominate the discussion. In different ways, these approaches take into account the movement from the...
A Healing Homiletic
Preaching and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
In A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability, Kathy Black offers a unique and effective approach for preaching about disabilities. By going to the heart of the gospel and drawing on the healing narratives or miracle stories, Black shows how preaching affects the inclusion or exclusion of forty-three...
by Robert Morrin Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Preaching to the Core is a book about God’s design in the individual. It is well known that without the empowerment of the Spirit preachers can accomplish little. It is not well known just how empowerment transpires from the heart of God to the hearts of individuals.Most books on preaching...
The Living Pulpit
Sermons that Illustrate Preaching in the Stone-Campbell Movement 1968-2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Fifty years of preaching excellence in one volume.
The Living Pulpit collects sermons from representative preachers in the Stone-Campbell Movement--pastors affiliated with the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--over...
The Homiletical Question
An Introduction to Liturgical Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The Homiletical Question offers preachers, from beginning students to the most experienced, a concise introduction to lectionary-based preaching in liturgical contexts familiar to Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and others. The book demonstrates how, by answering a single, simple...
by Edmund P. Clowney
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
Voicing one theme for the entire Bible and structuring all sermons around that idea may seem to be an impossible challenge. For veteran pastor and preaching professor Edmund Clowney it will not do to preach a text from either the Old or New Testaments without fully preaching its ultimate and primary...
by Scott M. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Sooner or later, every pastor will be called on to conduct special services. Baptisms, weddings, funerals, infant presentations, and evangelistic services, each in their own way, challenge pastors to find the right words to mark the occasion.
Preaching for Special Services will help pastors...
by Alistair Begg
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Every Christian, from the pastor to the newest believer, is to study the Scriptures and learn to handle the Word of God correctly. Yet far too many congregations are being fed sweet but empty words that leave them spiritually malnourished and ill-prepared to stand firm in their faith.
Alistair...
by Bill Easum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Before he was one of the best-known church consultants in the country, Bill Easum served a lengthy pastorate in San Antonio, Texas. When he arrived at the church it was in serious decline, with the possibility of having to close its doors beginning to loom over it. By the time he left it was the...
Preaching to a Postmodern World
A Guide to Reaching Twenty-first Century Listeners
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
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...
by Steven D. Mathewson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
The power of an intriguing story can not only captivate an audience, but when presented in a familiar and personal way, can communicate important truths. With this realization, Steven Mathewson offers here a guide to applying careful expository preaching methods to popular Old Testament stories.
Mathewson...
Reclaiming the Imagination
The Exodus as Paradigmatic Narrative for Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Reclaiming the Imagination: The Exodus as Paradigmatic Narrative for Preaching, focuses on the paradigm of the exodus as developed in scripture. This book proposes that we allow the world imagined in the exodus narrative to form, inform, and transform the lives of preachers and congregations. The...
Four Waves Of Biblical Exegesis
Fundamentals Of Preaching Whitepapers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
You need to learn how to exegete a text for preaching but you haven't been to seminary and you don't have a lot of time. This 35 page white paper will give you the fundamentals quickly.
While proper exegesis takes a number of hours this white paper will help you determine where to spend those hours for better preaching.