Preaching and Professing

Preaching and Professing
Title Preaching and Professing PDF eBook
Author Ralph C. Wood
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 311
Release 2009-01-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 0802864465

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Testifies to the presence of God as both our post-earthly hope and our present-world existence. / These thought-provoking sermons by Ralph Wood, a layman who has taught religion and literature for many years, seek to till new soil in the fertile field of Christian faith and life. They draw on a wide range of reading not only in Christian theology but also in both classical and contemporary literature and culture. And they also mine Wood s own professorial and personal experience in dealing with both the old and the young amid "the chances and changes of life." / Wood squarely engages the American "culture of death" by wrestling with such vexing questions as sexuality and marriage, war and peace, abortion, racial injustice, and abuse of the elderly. By grounding his homilies in specific times, places, and quandaries, Wood demonstrates that Christianity remains a vigorous set of doctrines and morals precisely as preaching and ethics give shape to our worship and living in the here and now. Focusing not so much on our "getting to heaven," Wood's Preaching and Professing shows concretely how the gospel "gets heaven into us."

Paradoxology

Paradoxology
Title Paradoxology PDF eBook
Author Krish Kandiah
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 324
Release 2017-01-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830897720

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Many of us have big questions about God that the Christian faith seems to leave unanswered. But what if that tension is exactly where faith comes alive? Paradoxology boldly claims that the paradoxes that seem to undermine belief are actually the heart of our vibrant faith, and it is only by continually wrestling with them that God is most clearly revealed.

Lewis on the Christian Life

Lewis on the Christian Life
Title Lewis on the Christian Life PDF eBook
Author Joe Rigney
Publisher Crossway
Pages 364
Release 2018-04-16
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 143355058X

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C. S. Lewis excelled at plumbing the depths of the human heart, both the good and the bad, the beautiful and the corrupt. From science fiction and fantasy to essays, letters, and works of apologetics, Lewis has offered a wealth of insight into how to live the Christian life. In this book, Rigney explores the center of Lewis's vision for the Christian life—the personal encounter between the human self and the living God. In prayer, in the church, in the imagination, in our natural loves, in our pleasures and our sorrows, God brings us into his presence so that we can become fully human: alive, free, and whole, transformed into the image of Jesus Christ.

Preaching with Empathy

Preaching with Empathy
Title Preaching with Empathy PDF eBook
Author Lenny Luchetti
Publisher Abingdon Press
Pages
Release 2018-09-18
Genre Religion
ISBN 1501841734

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Preachers can find help from many resources to get the text right, the structure right, and the delivery right. Preaching with Empathy aims to help preachers and homiletics students learn to deeply understand and love their listeners, in order to get preaching right. Preachers who profess a love for God, Scripture, and preaching, but who lack loving empathy for the listener, betray their three professed loves and limit their fruitfulness in ministry. This book teaches how to practice preaching in new ways, incorporating a heightened awareness and empathy for the people in the preacher’s community. Author Lenny Luchetti provides immediately useful tools, all based on the foundations of scripture, theology, history, and social awareness. Readers will learn to embody Christ for their congregations, as they empathically love God and humanity. This book is part of the successful Artistry in Preaching series, edited by Paul Scott Wilson. Other books in the series include Preaching as Poetry: Beauty, Goodness and Truth in Every Sermon, by Paul Scott Wilson; Actuality: Real Life Stories for Sermons that Matter, by Scott Hoezee; and Preaching in Pictures: Using Images for Sermons that Connect, by Peter Jonker.

The Best Method of Preaching

The Best Method of Preaching
Title The Best Method of Preaching PDF eBook
Author Peter van Mastricht
Publisher
Pages 82
Release 2012-06-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781601782304

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Expository Exultation

Expository Exultation
Title Expository Exultation PDF eBook
Author John Piper
Publisher Crossway
Pages 383
Release 2018-04-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 1433561166

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“God has appointed preaching in worship as one great means of accomplishing his ultimate goal in the world.” —John Piper John Piper makes a compelling claim in these pages about the purpose of preaching: it is intended not merely as an explanation of the text but also as a means of awakening worship by being worship in and of itself. Christian preaching is a God-appointed miracle aiming to awaken the supernatural seeing, savoring, and showing of the glory of Christ. Distilling over forty years of experience in preaching and teaching, Piper shows preachers how and what to communicate from God’s Word, so that God’s purpose on earth will advance through Biblesaturated, Christ-exalting, God-centered preaching—in other words, expository exultation.

Preaching the Gospel of Matthew

Preaching the Gospel of Matthew
Title Preaching the Gospel of Matthew PDF eBook
Author Stanley P. Saunders
Publisher Westminster John Knox Press
Pages 312
Release 2010-09-02
Genre Religion
ISBN 1611640830

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This commentary for preaching Matthew, a companion to WJK's successful Preaching the Gospel of Luke, Preaching the Gospel of John, and Preaching the Gospel of Mark, works through every passage of Matthew's Gospel with exegetical insight and a keen sensitivity to the demands of preaching. Stanley P. Saunders' commentary follows the biblical text, divided into passages. After each passage, a number of possibilities are presented for how to preach that text. He includes a wealth of creative and pertinent tips to help preachers apply Matthew's narrative to the lives of today's churchgoers.