Preaching category: 634 books
by O.C. Edwards, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A History of Preaching brings together narrative history and primary sources to provide the most comprehensive guide available to the story of the church's ministry of proclamation. Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture...
Preaching Must Die!
Troubling Homiletical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we are going to help it die a good death. Preaching was not made to live. At most, preaching is a witness, a sign, a crimson X marking a demolition...
by O.C. Edwards, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A History of Preaching brings together narrative history and primary sources to provide the most comprehensive guide available to the story of the church's ministry of proclamation. Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture...
Spirit-Led Preaching
The Holy Spirit’s Role in Sermon Preparation and Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Preaching simply does not happen apart from the Holy Spirit. In fact, preaching is the Spirit's ministry! Spirit-Led Preaching helps readers understand preaching from the Spirit's point of view and teaches about the Spirit's role in both the preparation and delivery process, showing what it means...
The Web of Preaching
New Options In Homiletic Method
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Preaching is not as simple as it may appear. The preacher today is confronted with a dizzying array of homiletic methods and approaches, each holding important insights into how to proclaim the Good News. While pastors wish to learn from these different ways of preaching, they often do not know where...
by Frank A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Introduction to African American Preaching is an important, groundbreaking book. This book acknowledges African American preaching as an academic discipline, and invites all students and preachers into a scholarly, dynamic, and useful exploration of the topic.
Author Frank Thomas opens...
by Joseph M. Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Preaching for the Contemporary Service is a guide to releasing the energy and creativity of the contemporary worship service within the sermon. Is the traditional sermon still relevant in contemporary worship settings or is it hopelessly out of place? Joseph Webb shows how improvisational preaching...
Doctrine That Dances
Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Preaching magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year! The theme of doctrinal preaching and teaching comes to life through the enthusiastic and inspired writing of professor Robert Smith in Doctrine That Dances.
Advance Praise:
“At a time when so much of the conversation...
On Preaching
Personal & Pastoral Insights for the Preparation & Practice of Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Preaching Magazine's 2015 Book of the Year
If you are a pastor, you know the importance of preaching. You have spent time learning and refining the art of preaching because it is vital to the life of God's people—including the preacher. But you probably also find it challenging.
On...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Bringing together some of the finest voices in contemporary homiletics to examine the different forms as well as the status of narrative preaching, What’s the Shape of Narrative Preaching? will give readers much to ponder on this impact topic. Teachers of preaching have long recognized that the...
Preaching for the Rest of Us
Essentials for Text-Driven Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Preaching for the Rest of Us serves as a starter's guide to text-driven preaching. Driven by the conviction that pastors hold the weighty and honorable responsibility of explaining Scripture to their congregations, Gallaty and Smith present a clear step-by-step process for re-presenting Scripture...
The Jazz of Preaching
How to Preach with Great Freedom and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic renderings as Sarah Vaughan was in her musical vocals? As honest about heartache as Billie Holiday was every time she sang about the blues of life? As alluringly...
Preaching to a Shifting Culture
12 Perspectives on Communicating that Connects
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
The church in America is part of a changing culture, and today's preachers must be prepared to engage the unique issues of our postmodern age.
Editor Scott M. Gibson has skillfully combined the works of many well-known preachers, including Haddon Robinson and Bryan Chapell, into one practical...
Preaching with a Plan
Sermon Strategies for Growing Mature Believers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Every pastor wants the sermon to be an important tool for maturing those listening in the pews. Having a preaching plan is an essential part of this process. If a preacher's messages are scattered, unrelated to one another, or haphazardly prepared, it can be difficult for those in the congregation...