Author : Barbara Brown Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 156101074X
Like Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Taylor emphasizes the holy dimensions of ordinary life and describes the essentials of faith with insight and humor, touching on the vocations, imagination, worship, sacraments, ministry and the Bible as they relate to the life of faith.
Author : Mark Dever
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433673177
A non-academic overview of expositional preaching that provides theological and practical insight on why and how sermons clearly rooted in biblical text must be at the center of church life.
Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664234453
In addition to being one of the world's leading interpreters of the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann is a skilled and beloved preacher. This collection of sermons demonstrates Brueggemann's fidelity to biblical texts, which come alive with meaning in our contemporary world. Throughout, Brueggemann reflects on his preaching. As Samuel Wells writes in his foreword, "Enjoy this volume from a master exegete, a master theologian, and a master preacher. They really are neat sermons. And they're for you."
Author : Robert C. Dykstra
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN : 9780827206564
Author : Ronald J. Allen
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827229933
This collection of sermons by noted homileticians illustrates thirty-four distinct styles of contemporary and traditional preaching.
Author : Otis Moss III
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1611646324
"Can preaching recover a Blues sensibility and dare speak with authority in the midst of tragedy? America is living stormy Monday, but the pulpit is preaching happy Sunday. The world is experiencing the Blues, and pulpiteers are dispensing excessive doses of non-prescribed prosaic sermons with severe ecclesiastical and theological side effects." â€"from chapter 1 Uniquely gifted preacher Otis Moss III helps preachers effectively communicate hope in a desperate and difficult world in this new work based on his 2014 Yale Lyman Beecher Lectures. Moss challenges preachers to preach with a "Blue Note sensibility," which speaks directly to the tragedies faced by their congregants without falling into despair. He then offers four powerful sermons that illustrate his Blue Note preaching style. In them, Moss beautifully and passionately brings to life biblical characters that speak to today's pressing issues, including race discrimination and police brutality, while maintaining a strong message of hope. Moss shows how preachers can teach their congregations to resist letting the darkness find its way into them and, instead, learn to dance in the dark.
Author : Barbara Brown Taylor
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1646980093
From beloved writer and renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor comes a new collection of stories and sermons of faith, grace, and hope. Taylor, author of the best-selling books Holy Envy and An Altar in the World, among others, finds that when you are the invited guest speaking of faith to people you don't know, one must seek common ground: exploring the central human experience. Full of Taylor's astute observations on the Spirit and the state of the world along with her gentle wit, this collection will inspire Taylor’s fans and preachers alike as she explores faith in all its beauty and complexity.
Author : Ronald J. Allen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664253066
This 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 : Yancey Arrington
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780997946901
Pastor and preaching coach, Dr. Yancey Arrington offers a new paradigm for message preparation - one that focuses on seeing sermons emotionally, where preachers will be trained on discovering a message's emotional center, charting sermon bandwidth, and leveraging one's God-given personality in the preaching event. This innovative approach to preaching can produce more effective seasons in the pulpit where congregants are carried `down the mountain' of messages in such a way they can't wait to do it again!
Author : Paul Scott Wilson
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426724713
Doing justice to the complexity of the preaching task and the questions that underlie it, Wilson organizes both the preparation and the content of the sermon around its "four pages." Each "page" addresses a different theological and creative component of what happens in any sermon. Page One presents the trouble or conflict that takes place in or that underscores the biblical text itself. Page Two looks at similar conflict--sin or brokenness--in our own time. Page Three returns to the Bible to identify where God is at work in or behind the text--in other words, to discover the good news. Page Four points to God at work in our world, particularly in relation to the situations described in Page Two.
