What The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
I make a habit of listening to Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas Texas. Dr. Haynes incorporates stories into his preaching very effectively. These stories are gleaned from various sources.
At 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:
Here are 4 5-8 minute videos by Rev Robert Smith entitled Lessons in Whooping.
Robert Smith Lessons In Whooping 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 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 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 MoreThe next pattern from Ronald Allen’s book Patterns for Preaching is Paul Scott Wilson’s approach described in his book The Four Pages of the Sermon The sermon under this structure is a manuscript with four distinct pages. Each page is a different approach to the materials.
Four Pages of a Sermon Read MoreThe next pattern in the book Preaching Patterns by Ronald Allen is the Sermon as Journey to Celebration.
Sermon as Journey to Celebration Read MoreThe Unashamed Workman teaches truth by quoting John Stott’s new book entitled The Living Church. Stott says in part:
Biblical or Contemporary? Read MoreBut authentic Christian preaching is a bridge-building operation. It relates the text to the context in such a way as to be faithful to the biblical text and sensitive to the modern context. We must not sacrifice either to the other.
Xavier Pickett over at Reformed Blacks of America has done it again. He has presented a concise attack on the status-quo from the perspective of the Black Preaching Tradition.
He states:
Expository Black Preaching? Read MoreThe goal of preaching is not expositional preaching, but rather to present and proclaim Christ as resurrected.
Kirk Byron Jones introduces the concept of “playing words” in his helpful book The Jazz of Preaching.
Henry Mitchell notes that these two features of Black Preaching Style are not as dominant as other ones. Mitchell notes that aphorisms are common in all traditions of preaching, but aphorisms or “clever, pithy statements.”
Aphorisms and Hesitation Read More