What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
The Exiled Preacher has a post up on George Whitefield and Expository Preaching. Guy Davis, the author, writes about how difficult it can be to use a manuscript effectively. Certainly many of us have left our manuscript for a second to “riff” on a theme or go down a different direction. However upon attempting to come back to our manuscript we find it difficult to find the correct place.
Whitefield and Extemporaneous Preaching Read MoreProfessor Michael Brown, author of The Blackening of the Bible has a website that includes audio sermons and syllabi of his courses.
Michael Brown – African American Bible Scholar Read MoreAt this link you will find two lectures on Black Preaching and a sermon by Dr. Maurice Watson of Beulahland Bible Church in Macon Ga.
The lecture titles are as follows:
The next pattern in Ron Allen’s work, Patterns of Preaching is entitled Preaching on a Biblical Theme.
Thanks to the TheoCentric Blog for a pointer to this article by Michael S. Horton entitled “Are you in God’s story or is God in Yours?”
Horton writes in part:
God’s Story or Ours Read More
How should you end a sermon series? That is the question that the Biblical Preaching blog deals with in its latest post. Pastor Mead provides three possibilities:
Now Mead is explicitly speaking of preaching through an expository series based on a book of the Bible, but it can be helpful in any sermon series.
Ending the Sermon Series Read MoreThe next preaching pattern is the topical sermon. The topical sermon is usually based on a doctrine, teaching, or contemporary issue affecting the congregation. The preacher attempts to help the congregation understand and interpret the topic from the perspective of the gospel.
Preaching Patterns – Topical Preaching Read MorePastor C. A. W. Clark, one of the greatest whoopers of all time, closes a sermon entitled The Possibilities of a Comeback at this link. The second part of the conclusion is at this link.
C. A. W. Clark – Possibility of a Comeback Read MoreThe next preaching pattern presented in Ronald Allen’s book is the Funeral Homily.
Preaching Patterns – The Funeral Sermon Read MoreThe next pattern that Ronald Allen speaks of is the Wedding Homily.
Preaching Patterns – The Wedding Homily Read More
An Evangelical Lutheran Blog run by a Father Eckardt has a post up on Extemporaneous Preaching.
In the post there is first some discussion of the Eckardt’s theology and understanding of Preaching. What was of particular interest to me however was his methodology.
Preaching Without Notes – Immersion in the Bible Language Read MoreThe next pattern found in Allen’s book Preaching Patterns is the jigsaw sermon. Here the sermon is split up into small pieces that are related to each other but the congregation can’t see the connections till much later in the sermon.
Sermon as a Jigsaw Puzzle Read MoreAs we continue looking at Preaching Patterns from Ronald Allen we come to Preaching a Sermon on a Biblical Character. In this method the preacher looks for information on one character of the Bible throughout the Bible as well as in history and other Biblical Reference Materials. Then the preacher tells constructs the story of the Biblical character from all that material.
Sermon As Portrayal of Biblical Character Read MoreIn many of the other sermon patterns, we looked at approaches to structure a sermon. However, this pattern is a way of sermon preparation. How do you go about preparing a sermon? This method attempts to follow a method much like that which many novelists use.