Here are 4 5-8 minute videos by Rev Robert Smith entitled Lessons in Whooping.
Month: August 2007
Dunbar Village Rape Case – Can God Count on the Black Preacher?
Have you heard about the Dunbar Village Rape? Up till today, I hadn’t and that is a shame. I wish to give props to the What about our Daughters blog for reporting on this very important subject. Here is a post where What About Our Daughters simply asks, “What is in the water.”
Sermon as Work of Art
The next pattern found in Allen’s Preaching Patterns is entitled Sermon Drawing from the Arts. Allen notes that preachers have drawn from the arts for illustrations of sermons often. However in this mode of preaching the art form is allowed to create a world that the people will participate in.
Sermon as Movement of Images
The next pattern described in Allen’s work Preaching Patterns is Thomas H. Troeger’s approach. In this approach you preach a sermon that is composed of images described verbally. You can see the method in his work Imaging a Sermon
Series of Images
Preaching from First Naivete to Second Naivete
The next pattern in Ronald Allen’s book entitled Preaching Patterns is the Moving from First Naivete’ through Critical Reflection to Second Naivete’. The idea comes from the hermeneutical theorist Paul Ricoeur. Here the sermon takes three steps.
First Naivete’
Sermon – Wake Up, Throw Off, and Put On
Romans 13:11-14
Introduction
Four Types of Sermons
The Talking the Walk Blog has a post up on four ancient sermonic forms.
There is
- Kerygma – Preaching the plain facts of the Gospel.
- Didache – Preaching the implications and siginificance of the gospel.
- Paraklesis – Urging on humanity the need to live out the implications of the Gospel Teaching.
- Homilia – Treat an issue in the light of the Gospel message.
Preaching Patterns – From Oops to Yeah
The next pattern from preaching that we find in the book Preaching Patterns by Ronald Allen is Eugene Lowry’s pattern of a Homiletical Plot.
Spirit or Mechanics? – Preaching the God’s Sermon
The Theocentric Preaching blog has a post up entitled Good homiletics does not always lead to good preaching
Bible Study – Power of the Word
What was the way in which God brought the heavens into existence? – Psalms 33:6-9.
What is it that Christ uses to uphold all things? – Hebrews 1:3.
Of what great truth are some willingly ignorant? – 2 Peter 3:5,6.
By what are the present heavens and earth reserved for a similar fate? – 2 Peter 3:7.
What other passage of Scripture also reveals that creative power is exercised through the word of God? – Psalms 148:5.
What change is wrought out in the life of one who is in Christ? – 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Not You But Me
It’s me, It’s me, It’s me oh Lord
Standin in the Need of Prayer
It’s me, It’s me, It’s me oh Lord
Standin’ in the Need of Prayer
Bible Study – Creation and Redemption
What does the first scripture in the Bible reveal about God? – Genesis 1:1.
What Bible contrast is repeatedly drawn between the true God and false gods?
Jeremiah 10:11,16. Jeremiah 14:22.
Through whom did God work in the creation of all things? – John 1:1-3.
Through whom is our redemption provided? – Romans 5:8,9.
What passage of Scripture speaks of the Creator as Redeemer? – Isaiah 43:1.
Which prayer of David reveals that God’s redemptive work of man is a creative work? – Psalms 51:10.