Preaching category: 634 books
Christian Preaching and Worship in Multicultural Contexts
A Practical Theological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Can Christian preaching and worship in multicultural contexts be more faithful to the Christian gospel and more meaningful and memorable to worshipers? In this book, Eunjoo Mary Kim explores this theological and liturgical concern and proposes a paradigm shift from monocultural to multicultural worship. This...
Preaching about Racism
A Guide for Faith Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Equipping white pastors to address racism faithfully from the pulpit.
Of all the activities that come with being a minister, sermon preparation can loom largest - especially when racism is the subject. You've got to address racism with your white congregation from the pulpit. But, truthfully,...
by Joel K. T. Biwul
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The African church needs preachers who preach the Scriptures to bring people to Christ and nurture them in the faith. Yet many are failing at this task. Some use their sermons to promote themselves rather than Christ, while others do not know how to preach from the Scriptures. In Preaching the Scriptures...
Spirit Speech
Lament and Celebration in Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
That the Holy Spirit is present in preaching is something we take for granted. How the Spirit is present is a question we seldom ask. Luke Powery suggests that we fail to ask that question to the detriment of our preaching. Drawing on the tradition of African American preaching, he locates the Spirit’s...
Live, Listen, Tell
The Art of Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Live, Listen, Tell: The Art of Preaching will guide readers through the process of sermon preparation and hearing God through the Scriptures. By drawing on life and Scripture, especially the road to Emmaus narrative in Luke 24, the author illustrates that preachers are living a story, listening to...
Preaching and the Human Condition
Loving God, Self, & Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In the wake of Enlightenment emphasis on the individual and confidence in human progress/ability, sermons often suffer from a lack of adequate analysis and presentation of the human condition. The result is that preachers either 1. (intentionally or unintentionally) offer self-help type messages or...
Preaching the Luminous Word
Biblical Sermons and Homiletical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Insights from one of the most distinctive and eloquent scholar-preachers of our time
Inviting serious theological engagement with texts from all parts of the Christian Bible, Preaching the Luminous Word is a collection of fifty-one sermons and five related essays from noted preacher and biblical...
Text Messages
Preaching God’s Word in a Smartphone World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Facebook. Twitter. Snapchat. We live in a rapidly changing world, a world that seems to be increasingly inhospitable toward preaching. In the face of digital technology, social media, cultural pluralism, and pastoral burnout, how can Christian preachers proclaim the gospel faithfully and effectively?...
The New England Soul
Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book." - Journal of American History "Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has...
by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
I hope my Gospel did them good. Its essential principle is that one should not be a gypsy forever. He should return home. Having returned, he should plant the seeds of Art and of Beauty. He should tend them till they grow. There is something...
Preaching and Teaching the Last Things
Old Testament Eschatology for the Life of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Distinguished Old Testament scholar Walter Kaiser believes that the Old Testament is sorely neglected today in teaching and preaching, but it is even more neglected when it comes to setting forth the hope that Christians have for the future. Firmly believing that the Old Testament offers important...
The Preaching of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
The Gospel Meets the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
The greatness of America's most influential preachers of the twentieth century came from their significant contributions to both religious and secular society. Some names, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Billy Graham, are universally recognized and typically thought of first by people today. Assorted...
Undone by Easter
Keeping Preaching Fresh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Face the prospect of preaching your next Easter sermon with joy and confidence, rather than worry about finding something new to say.
Preachers dread the arrival of Easter, because these holy days bring the daunting task of finding new ways to tell the old stories everyone's heard so many times...
Reading for Preaching
The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers.
Plantinga -- himself a master preacher -- shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the...