Here is a video of Dr. Benjamin Reaves’ sermon entitled More than Conquerors from the 30 Good Minutes Website.
Month: December 2006
Reading the Bible in the Incoming Year
Many people make resolutions to read the Bible through in the incoming year.
How to Read the Bible
Thanks from Dipnoi for this link to the Real Live Preacher’s series on How To Read the Bible. Here is a link to the video for part 1. It looks as if it will be helpful and valuable.
Homiletic Term – Celebration
Definition
The Homiletic Terms bliography defines Celebration as A peak moment of emotional, cognitive, and spiritual release occurring during sermons. This “peak moment” is often the final portion of the sermon.
Sub-Categories
What is Good Preaching?
Paul Reid asks this question in his blog. He answers integrity, faithfulness, intelligible, and humility. These are truly good qualities to ask of onesself when the preacher steps into the pulpit, but a couple of things came to my mind. Are these required however is a good question. I have heard powerful sermons by preachers who were not the least bit humble. And integrity is a powerful word. Can any of us really say that we are true to the message that we preach?
Call and Response – Homiletic Term
Definition
Our Homiletic Terms bibliography defines Call and Response as “A back-and-forth verbal dialogue between preacher and congregation during the sermon.†Often this is assumed to be in the African American church with an African American preacher, but I have seen pentecostal European American pastors interacting with mixed congregations in this way.
Sub-Categories
How To Preach a Lousy Sermon
Ken Collins gives you a list of things to do if you want to preach a terrible sermon. The whole list is helpful and can be read with profit.
Sermon Starters from Dave Barnhart
The author of the Vulgar Homiletics Blog has published some sermon starters for the first few sundays of next year in the Circuit Rider. These correspond to the lectionary readings for Jan 18 – Feb 14 of 2007.
Learning from Other Preachers
I was talking to a fellow student the other day about the quality of sermons that we get to hear in divinity school. You see when students are graded they put forth their best effort. That is not to say that all have been good, but most have. This past week I got to hear two sermons that were particularly interesting to me in that they both gave me models of a particular aspect of preaching that I have been working on.
Connection to the Congregation
Fall 2006 Is History – School Term Ends
As some of you know, I am a MDiv student at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
Top 10 Selling Preaching Books Through this Site: Part 3
Here are the two best selling books on preaching through this site.
Seed-picking Preaching
Lingamish has a post up where he decries what he calls “seed-picking” in sermon presentation. Here the preacher jumps from text to text quickly and without giving proper attention to background and the context of the texts used.
we all have heard these sermons…In John it says, and turn over to Ezekiel, and this agrees with Genesis. Usually these sermons lose all context and ends up just being a mismatch of texts.
Top 10 Selling Preaching Books Through this Site: Part 2
In this post we continue looking at the top 10 selling preaching books bought through this site.
Top 10 Selling Preaching Books Through this Site: Part 1
I have been blogging on preaching for about a year now. Through all the blogs I have suggested books on preaching. Over the past year here are the top 10 best selling books on preaching.