What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
I love Black preaching. I love the style that African American preachers use in bringing a word from God.
However, African American Preaching is more than whooping, shouting, and style. It is also a prophetic engagement with the powers that be. It stands up against wickedness in all places even if that wickedness finds itself in our midst.
Here are 4 5-8 minute videos by Rev Robert Smith entitled Lessons in Whooping.
Robert Smith Lessons In Whooping Read MoreHave 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.”
Dunbar Village Rape Case – Can God Count on the Black Preacher? Read MoreThe 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 Work of Art Read MoreThe 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
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.
The Talking the Walk Blog has a post up on four ancient sermonic forms.
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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.
Preaching Patterns – From Oops to Yeah Read MoreThe Theocentric Preaching blog has a post up entitled Good homiletics does not always lead to good preaching
Spirit or Mechanics? – Preaching the God’s Sermon Read MoreWhooping is one of the components of the Black Preaching Tradition that grabs the attention of many congregates and preachers.
To Whoop or Not To Whoop – Musicality in Black Preaching Read MoreDevotional #2
Have you Got Good Religion. Cert’ly Lord
Have you Got Good Religion. Cert’ly Lord
Have you got good Religion.
Cert’ly, Cert’ly, Cert’ly Lord
This is a very upbeat and sure spiritual. The singer not only emphasizes the fact of a difference between good and bad religion, but it also shows a certainty that the singer possesses this good religion.
Do You Know You Have It? Read More