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In this new volume, prolific scholar Walter Brueggemann seeks to show Christian preachers how to consider the faith witnessed in several Old Testament traditions and to help them discover rich and suggestive connections to our contemporary faith challenges. The author also assumes that a wholesale, sustained engagement with the Old Testament is worth the effort for the preacher. He recognizes what he calls the "sorry state" of Old Testament texts...
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Lisa Cressman, founder of Backstory Preaching, offers preachers tools to craft difficult sermon messages that can be heard. The gospel changes lives, but to do that it must first be, heard. For it to be, heard people have to trust they are "seen" and their concerns and fears are acknowledged. They have to feel their perspectives are real, valid, and respected.
Preachers have a difficult message to preach, a message many will not want to hear: new...
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In A Lay Preacher's Guide, How to Craft a Faithful Sermon, Karoline M. Lewis provides lay preachers with an essential and accessible guide to the basics of Sunday morning preaching.
Laypeople are increasingly, called to serve congregations and are preaching regularly. But often, they do not have immediate, reliable, or trusted access, to homiletical instruction or support for their preaching. As a result, these church leaders, feeling called, to ministry...
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Prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks, preaching and leadership-complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly, during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors. This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian...
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Preeminent biblical scholar and preacher Walter Brueggemann says the book of Jeremiah is not a sermon, but it does sound the cadences of the tradition of Deuteronomy that serve as sermons-that is, as expositions based on remembered and treasured tradition. In this volume, Brueggemann conducts an experiment in homiletics. He wants us to wrestle with the question, What if we allow the canonical shape of the book of Jeremiah to instruct us concerning...
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Old Testament scholar and interpreter Brent A. Strawn focuses on the importance of honesty in preaching, especially around three challenging Old Testament themes: sin, suffering, and violence. He makes the case that preaching honestly is critical in the church today. Without honesty regarding these topics, there is no way forward to reconciliation, health, and recovery. Further, it is imperative for today's preachers to deal with the questions of...
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The proclamation of the gospel is the responsibility of the baptized rather than the privilege of the ordained. Preaching is not a solo endeavor. It is a communal practice, a ministry of the whole congregation that is most faithful, when the process is shared.
In The Peoples' Sermon, Shauna K. Hannan argues that it is no longer faithful for a preacher to craft a sermon in isolation, step into "the pulpit" (literally or metaphorically) on Sunday morning,...
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Preachers often feel stuck when met with quickly shifting and dense media topics that flood the headlines. If, and when, they determine it is appropriate to address issues that arise in the news cycle, they are often at a loss for how to speak about them from the pulpit. When preachers understand that a responsibility to sustain life is, embedded in the purposes of preaching, they discover greater fluidity between the everyday world, the biblical...
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Words bombard us every day. Words can be noisy and cheap. And yet, words are all preachers have. In Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart, Donna Giver-Johnston addresses the question: How do you capture ears in an era of noise? Many preachers want to get away from their notes and make a more personal connection with their listeners, but they have not been, mentored in methods that enable them to do that.
Grounded in a theology of incarnation...
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For everything there is a season, as the writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us, and that includes preaching. Beyond ordinary Sunday morning worship, many other "seasons"-special occasions-arise for preaching in the life of the church, whether by virtue of the secular calendar or celebrations or circumstances in the congregation or community. “For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions” offers preachers a process for creating sermons...
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The characters in Scripture are often portrayed as one-dimensional-as caricatures instead of human beings with real needs, authentic pain, and compelling fears. When their problems are viewed as one-dimensional, so is their faith. Approaching biblical characters in this way can inhibit listeners' ability to hear the biblical witness as relevant to their own lives and can minimize the impact of Scripture on their faith journey.
Real People, Real Faith...
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Comedians tend to view the world somewhat askew or askance, and that view-a kind of hermeneutical lens for discerning the comedic in daily life-serves to frame, reframe, and even de-frame reality. Preachers do the same, viewing the world askance through a theological lens of discerning God in daily life. That theological view allows one to preach hope in the face of despair, seeing the world in terms of God's justice and declaring the promise of life...
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Steve Thomason's plan was that after graduating from college, God would allow him to become a Disney animator so that one day he could open his own animation studio. It turned out God had other plans, and Thomason became a parish pastor-a pastor with a passion for both art and preaching.
In “The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word”, Thomason's winsomely illustrated text shows preachers visual techniques to study the Bible, construct...