Preaching category: 634 books
by Steven D. Mathewson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
This book gives sound, proven advice on overcoming common challenges of preaching. With a compelling voice, Mathewson encourages pastors and seminary students to preach from the Gospels with confidence rather than trepidation. For pastors or seminary students who love Jesus and want to teach others through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, this book is for them.
When God Speaks through You
How Faith Convictions Shape Preaching and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
"Holy and active listening" means listening openly and attentively to one another with the expectation that God will speak in and through the conversation. In When God Speaks through You, homiletics professor Craig Satterlee helps preachers and their congregations learn to listen to one...
The Passion-Driven Sermon
Changing the Way Pastors Preach and Congregations Listen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Seasoned pastor and educator James L. Shaddix presents a philosophical and theological argument for the practice of biblical exposition as the pastor’s primary approach to preaching ministry in the local church. Shaddix emphasizes listening for God’s voice in the sermon, God-centered vs. man-centered preaching, and/or preaching for real life-change.
When God Speaks through Change
Preaching in Times of Congregational Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
At times, a congregational transition looms so large in a sermon that it becomes the lens through which scripture is interpreted, the congregation is addressed, the preacher is heard, and God is experienced. Homiletics professor and parish pastor Craig Satterlee reflects in this accessible, provocative...
by Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller MSpS
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Archbishop García-Siller offers a meditation on the call, the joy, and the duty of Catholic preaching in our day. For him, preaching is a conversation of love that invites the hearer to respond to God in love. He considers how effective preaching invites people into that relationship, encouraging today's preachers to be bold, enthusiastic, creative, and courageous.
Say Something!
Simple Ways to Make Your Sermons Matter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
People looking for a church home value good preaching most of all - as shown by a recent Pew Research study.
While tasty coffee, edgy technology, and flashy worship services are effective, if visitors don’t hear inspiring sermons they will not come back to your church.
The lesson is clear:...
Theologies of the Gospel in Context
The Crux of Homiletical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Many preachers and teachers of preaching talk about the gospel; few name it. Theologies of the Gospel in Context assembles a gifted group of homileticians who think that preachers need to be able to articulate the gospel not "in general," but in a certain time and place, in context. They...
Recapturing the Voice of God
Shaping Sermons Like Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
There is a difference between preaching from the Bible and preaching that allows the Bible to drive the substance, structure, and spirit of the sermon. A text-driven sermon allows the structure of the text to become buoyant, to come to the surface so that the sermon can be built around that structure....
Preaching by the Book
Developing and Delivering Text-Driven Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Preachers communicate God’s word by fully considering their context and their congregation.
Preaching by the Book is a practical handbook offering fundamental guidance for preachers beginning to explore their gifts, and fresh insights for seasoned veterans desiring to refine their craft....
Preaching the New Testament Again
Faith, Freedom, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This book combines critical New Testament scholarship with homiletic concerns. Kim unravels complexities of the most prominent themes in the New Testament such as faith, freedom, and transformation, and brings them into dialogue with modern preaching contexts, ranging from personal identity to social...
Deep and Wide
Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Jesus started a movement that has grown like wildfire throughout history. Author and pastor Andy Stanley draws from Scripture and over 25 years of pastoral experience to bring to life the irresistible nature of this movement known as the Church.
With surprising candor...
The Crucifixion
Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed “Christ crucified” as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Rutledge notes that preaching about the cross of Christ is remarkably neglected in most churches today. In this book Rutledge addresses the issues and controversies that have caused pastors to speak...
The Four Pages of the Sermon
A Guide to Biblical Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
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...
by Barbara Brown Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1998
“Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching—not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God.”
In...