Life Preaching
Title | Life Preaching PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan McClintock |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-08-01 |
Genre | Preaching |
ISBN | 9780757747106 |
The Preaching Life
Title | The Preaching Life PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 156101074X |
Like Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Taylor emphasizes the holy dimensions of ordinary life and describes the essentials of faith with insight and humor, touching on the vocations, imagination, worship, sacraments, ministry and the Bible as they relate to the life of faith.
Backstory Preaching
Title | Backstory Preaching PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Cressman |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0814645380 |
Instead of being a dour task on the checklist, what if the process of homily prep renewed you? Instead of feeling insecure about your message, what if your skills made you confident to preach a consistently clear message of Good News, authentic to you, relevant to your listeners, holding their attention and inviting transformation? Backstory Preaching: Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft shows you how. By integrating your life and spirituality with the practical skills necessary for effective preaching, you can move beyond the boredom, stress, or insecurity of preaching so it is no longer you who preach but Christ who preaches in you. By connecting with God in the midst of your sermon prep, the Gospel will be spread deeper and further. God’s joy—and yours—will be made complete.
Preaching that Matters
Title | Preaching that Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Farris |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664257590 |
Preaching is the art of building a bridge in the hearer's mind from the ancient world of the biblical text to the realities of our daily lives. Throughout this book, Stephen Farris offers splendid insights into ways that the Bible can connect with modern life and gives specific guidance to preachers on how to make these connections happen. This is a highly practical book for ministers and for classroom use.
Practicing the Preaching Life
Title | Practicing the Preaching Life PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Ward |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2019-03-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 150185495X |
Preaching is a way of life that can be beautiful and good; however, It can also be anxious, self-focused, and destructive. Preachers and teachers of preaching need a holistic view of preaching that not only paints the way to good preaching, but also to good living. They need a comprehensive practical theology of preaching that combines the ‘why’ and the ‘what’ with the ‘how’ and 'whom’ of preaching. Practicing the Preaching Life unites Christian practices, contextual virtues, and the best of homiletical pedagogy to pave the way to a beautiful preaching life. Preaching is best learned as a formative Christian practice embedded within a web of other Christian practices that form a way of life from which great sermons emerge. Therefore, preaching requires not only a way of speaking well, but also a way of living well. This embedded nature of preaching requires the enrollment of Christian practices in the formation of the preacher and the pursuit of contextual virtues for preaching that avoid cultural relativism on the one hand and cultural imperialism on the other. These requirements lead to a new vision for the preaching classroom, the rhythms of the preaching life, and the definition of what it means to be a good preacher.
Preaching to Connect Truth to Life
Title | Preaching to Connect Truth to Life PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Kelley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780898275285 |
Pastor Benji Kelley calls today's professional and lay preachers back to a lost art in many pulpits: narrative preaching. While examining the strengths and effectiveness of all traditional preaching styles, he particularly shows how--in every form of preaching--story can profoundly connect truth to any life . . . especially for the majority of today's disconnected audiences. This book is a powerful tool for both veteran and beginning preachers who want to understand, empathize with, and relevantly engage the congregations of this day and age.
Preaching
Title | Preaching PDF eBook |
Author | Fred B. Craddock |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2010-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0687659949 |
The standard textbook on the art and craft of preaching, with a new Foreword by Thomas G. Long.