Preaching category: 634 books
Voicing the Vision
Imagination and Prophetic Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
For more than a decade popular homiletics professor Linda Clader has been helping her students become attentive to how the Holy Spirit is speaking to them, and eventually through them to the congregation. In Voicing the Vision she shares her ideas about what preachers can do to be open and receptive...
Sermon Sparks
122 Ideas to Ignite Your Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A working pastor is always looking for fresh preaching perspectives. This hands-on resource from the author of a long-standing column in the journal Lectionary Homiletics covers the entire three-year lectionary cycle with brief reflections designed to generate fresh and timely sermon ideas.
Each...
Hearing the Sermon
Relationship, Content, Feeling<BR>Channels of Listening series
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Hearing the Sermon is a total revolution in the "how-to's" of preaching. It is the result of an extensive study that made those who listen to sermons the teachers of effective preaching. Using Aristotelian categories of rhetoric as a basis for analyzing the effectiveness of the sermon —...
From Why to Worship
An Introduction to the Book of Habakkuk
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In a world which often seems out of control, Christians today need to make a vital spiritual journey through the book of Habakkuk. This journey begins with life’s toughest questions. It involves times of patient waiting. But it leads to a revelation of God’s greatness and the discovery that he...
Le défi de la prédication
Transmettre la Parole de Dieu dans le monde d'aujourd'hui
Language: French
Release Date: July 14, 2014
John Stott (1921 – 2011) fut l’un des plus grands prédicateurs bibliques de notre temps. Dans cet ouvrage important, il réfléchit aux principes qui animent une saine prédication et propose des conseils pratiques pour le prédicateur. Il insiste sur la nécessité d’une écoute attentive...
by Stephen Nelson Rummage
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Planifique su predicación ayudará a todo pastor a enseñar con regularidad las doctrinas fundamentales, incorporar los días festivos, tratar las áreas de necesidad especial dentro de la congregación, e integrar los temas bíblicos en la educación continua de la congregación. Es un recurso indispensable...
The Preacher King
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 1997
Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily...
Who Lynched Willie Earle?
Preaching to Confront Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Pastors and leaders long to speak an effective biblical word into the contemporary social crisis of racial violence and black pain. They need a no-nonsense strategy rooted in actual ecclesial life, illuminated in this fine book by a trustworthy guide, Will Willimon, who uses the true story of pastor...
Should We Use Someone Else's Sermon?
Preaching in a Cut-and-Paste World
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
With easy access to sermons on the Internet, plus pressure to deliver the next sermon with little time to prepare, no wonder some pastors have resorted to plagiarizing other people’s sermons, passing them off as their own.This growing epidemic has received coverage in the Wall Street Journal, on...
A Cross-Shattered Church
Reclaiming the Theological Heart of Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In this work, eminent theologian Stanley Hauerwas shows how the sermon is the best context for doing good theology. He writes, "I am convinced that the recovery of the sermon as the context for theological reflection is crucial if Christians are to negotiate the world in which we find ourselves."...
The Preacher as Storyteller
The Power of Narrative in the Pulpit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The Preacher as Storyteller takes a skills-development approach to its timely homiletics topic. In short, author Austin B. Tucker reasons that “You can greatly improve your preaching by sharpening storytelling skills . . . A story can touch the latch spring of the heart to let the life-changing...
Uncommon Sense
Jesus and the Renewal of the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
These sermons from the 2012 National Festival of Young Preachers were videorecorded and may be viewed on the YouTube channel of the Academy of Preachers. The study guide included in this book provides thoughtful assistance for groups who wish to read, watch, and study the sermons. Uncommon Sense and...
by Charles Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Though best remembered as the most popular preacher of the Victorian era, C. H. Spurgeon was also founder and president of the Pastors College in London. He supervised the training of over 800 students, presided at an annual conference for ministers, and, on Friday afternoons, delivered regular lectures...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The four pillars in the Lord's recovery are the truth, life, the church, and the gospel. The truth brings us life, life produces the church, and the church is responsible for the preaching of the gospel.