Fundamentals of PreachingOriginally published in 1983, Fundamentals of Preaching has been a leading comprehensive textbook on preaching, guiding in the novice from the first steps of conceiving the sermon through the actual construction and delivery of it. In this new, revised form, it continues its outstanding qualities, with much input from recent homiletical studies and from the preaching of women. |
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... stands from which to observe the way people hear and act upon the gospel in this transitional era at the end of the twentieth century . I am much broad- ened , and I hope deepened , by the double experience especially through my ...
... stands from which to observe the way people hear and act upon the gospel in this transitional era at the end of the twentieth century . I am much broad- ened , and I hope deepened , by the double experience especially through my ...
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... stand and speak . The size of the congregation unsettled me . What did I possibly have to say to them ? How could I ... standing there , shuffling their feet in nervousness and then in eagerness as their passion rose and they endeavored ...
... stand and speak . The size of the congregation unsettled me . What did I possibly have to say to them ? How could I ... standing there , shuffling their feet in nervousness and then in eagerness as their passion rose and they endeavored ...
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... stand on our own platform when we preach , but on the community's . We do not invite people to join ourselves , but the community that is initiated by God , called by God , sustained by God , served by God . Recognizing this makes a ...
... stand on our own platform when we preach , but on the community's . We do not invite people to join ourselves , but the community that is initiated by God , called by God , sustained by God , served by God . Recognizing this makes a ...
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... stand , " says Cooper , as I stood , with his bare feet digging into the sand of their graves , and know that their ... standing . It contains all the great themes found in later writings . They are not always evident at first glance ...
... stand , " says Cooper , as I stood , with his bare feet digging into the sand of their graves , and know that their ... standing . It contains all the great themes found in later writings . They are not always evident at first glance ...
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... standing of persons , or delivers a lecture on marriage or education or the human predicament without tracing its roots in the community's dealings with God . They do not arrange their busy schedules to be in church on Sunday and hear ...
... standing of persons , or delivers a lecture on marriage or education or the human predicament without tracing its roots in the community's dealings with God . They do not arrange their busy schedules to be in church on Sunday and hear ...
Contents
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The Personal Dimension | 28 |
Constructing the Sermon | 47 |
Beginnings and Endings | 90 |
Illustrating the Sermon | 117 |
Matters of Style and Delivery | 147 |
What to Preach | 176 |
The Person Behind the Sermon | 199 |
Index | 220 |
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Page 97 - They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
Page 34 - The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Page 82 - As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, "Where is your God?
Page 110 - Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.
Page 110 - My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Page 109 - Before I'll be a slave I'll be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord And be free.
Page 68 - Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 43 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Page 96 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed : I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 88 - The moment you step into the world of facts, you step into a world of limits. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes. Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. Do not go about as...