Preaching category: 634 books
The Abingdon Preaching Annual 2019
Planning Sermons and Services for Fifty-Two Sundays
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Annual is lectionary-based and follows the calendar year (January - December).
Each week’s entry includes:
Primary Theme
Fleshed out with brief, pithy nuggets of thought, idea jump-starters, or questions
Secondary Themes
2 or 3 themes or streams of thought that are related...
Exorcising Preaching
Crafting Intellectually Honest Worship
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Exorcising Preaching delivers an urgent call to expel unhealthy practices from sermons, liberating the preacher and the people. Nathan C. Walker reflects on ways to replace harmful habits with healing disciplines that reawaken the craft of preaching.
Exorcising Preaching is a result of the...
by John Koessler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
"I can't tell you how many times I have preached and afterward promised God I would never embarrass Him like that again." — Joseph M. Stowell.
Unnatural. Supernatural. A gift. Hard work. Exhilarating. Terrifying. These words only begin to describe the challenge and reward each...
by Alice P. Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
In most twenty-first century congregations, women outnumber men by as much as fifty percent or more. Unfortunately, masculine anecdotes and a lack of understanding of the different ways women and men listen, learn, and perceive ideas of leadership and power leave many women feeling detached from the...
by Lloyd Perry
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 1990
"Biblical preaching has not outgrown its usefulness. The methods may vary, but the message remains the same. God's challenge and call to the preacher still come through loud and clear: 'Preach the Word.'"
Lloyd M. Perry's Biblical Preaching for Today's World has been helping pastors...
by Ruthanna B. Hooke
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Preaching is one of the more “transformable” aspects of the church’s life. Performance teacher Ruthanna Hooke, writing for both clergy and lay leaders, delivers the good and bad news about Episcopalians and preaching. She explains why preaching is more difficult than ever today, and provides...
A Vision for Preaching
Understanding the Heart of Pastoral Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book by a well-respected teacher of preachers develops an integrated biblical and theological vision for preaching that addresses the essentials of this most important activity in the church. Drawing on influential voices from church history, Abraham Kuruvilla reclaims what has been lost through...
Preaching While Bleeding
Is There A Prophet in the House?
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
“Dr. Hicks wrote Preaching While Bleeding as an experienced “bleeder”; therefore, I offer this word of caution—please be careful when reading this book because the blood of the author’s passion may spill on you.” —Dr. Maurice Watson, Senior Pastor, Metropolitan Baptist Church, Largo,...
Playing with Fire
Preaching Work as Kindling Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2004
Offering a fresh approach to homiletics, David J. Schlafer provides an invitation to preaching by way of metaphor. Starting with the fire of Scripture, and engaging in the work of preaching as play, Schlafer offers new ways of approaching the preaching moment. Taking into account the preacher's call,...
Preaching Ethically
Being True to the Gospel, Your Congregation, and Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
How do clergy preach to meet the legitimate needs of their congregation and live up to standards of professionalism and personal integrity? Preaching Ethically offers guidelines for preaching in light of a range of factors that might tempt a preacher to misuse the pulpit. How do you preach about controversial...
Crossover Preaching
Intercultural-Improvisational Homiletics in Conversation with Gardner C. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
As society becomes more culturally diverse and globally connected, churches and seminaries are rapidly changing. And as the church changes, preaching must change too. Crossover Preaching proposes a way forward through conversation with the "dean of the nation?s black preachers," Gardner...
Preaching as Resistance
Voices of Hope, Justice, and Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
30 new sermons to empower your prophetic voice for solidarity and justice.
As nationalism, patriarchy, and alt-right fear-mongering threaten our troubled nation, the pulpit has again become a subversive space of sacred resistance. In this provocative and powerful collection of sermons from...
Distance in Preaching
Room to Speak, Space to Listen
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Based on several years of teaching and careful observation in preaching classes, this book by Michael Brothers explores the benefits of "distance" in preaching -- and listening to -- sermons.
Having noticed that sermon listeners generally want to be given room for their own interpretations...
Viva Vox Evangelii - Reforming Preaching
Studia Homiletica 9
Language: German
Release Date: October 29, 2013
This volume contains the proceedings of an international homiletical conference, held in summer 2012 in Wittenberg (Germany). The theme „Viva Vox Evangelii – Reforming Preaching“ focuses on the vivid and multivoiced performance of preaching; it is worked out by researchers from North and South...