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.
How to Read the Bible Read MoreWhat The Blues Teaches Us About Preaching
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.
How to Read the Bible Read MoreThe 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.
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?
What is Good Preaching? Read MoreOur 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.
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.
How To Preach a Lousy Sermon Read MoreThe 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.
Sermon Starters from Dave Barnhart Read MoreI 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.
As some of you know, I am a MDiv student at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
Here are the two best selling books on preaching through this site.
Top 10 Selling Preaching Books Through this Site: Part 3 Read MoreLingamish 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.
Seed-picking Preaching Read MoreIn 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 2 Read MoreI 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.
Top 10 Selling Preaching Books Through this Site: Part 1 Read More
Miles Davis has taught me something important about myself and the preaching event.