Author: Brian C. Stiller
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: preaching, resources, fortress, postmoderns, parables
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0800637135
ISBN-13: 9780800637132

Stiller argues that Jesus’ parables, through their narrative, personal, and oral dimensions and reversal of expectations, provide unique access to Christianity for those whose experience and hopes we label "postmodern." Aligning contemporary scholarship with today’s cultural assumptions, Stiller offers preachers a working knowledge of postmodern sensibilities, an understanding of the parable genre, an analysis of ten parables, and a sample of how one might preach them effectively.

Author: Paul, Scott Wilson
Publisher: Christian Board of Publication
Keywords: preaching, partners, homiletical, theory
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 082722981X
ISBN-13: 9780827229815

Author: LeRoy Aden
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: preaching, resources, fortress, compassion, god
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0800635779
ISBN-13: 9780800635770

A significant contribution to the art of pastoral preaching This is a book about human suffering and the church’s efforts to minister to those who are suffering. It uses the resources of contemporary pastoral care to understand situations of suffering. For the most part, however, it focuses on pastoral preaching, that is, on the oral proclamation of God’s Word from the perspective of caring for or comforting people in need. While many books have been published on suffering and on pastoral preaching, few have combined these into a single concern, as does this volume. The authors re

Author: Charles L. Aaron
Publisher: Chalice Press
Keywords: preaching, classic, texts, micah, amp, hosea, amos
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2005-04-30
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0827229828
ISBN-13: 9780827229822

Author: Richard A. Jensen
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: preaching, fortress, resources, images, word, visual, envisioning
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 2005-04-28
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0800637291
ISBN-13: 9780800637293

In this one-volume resource kit, Jensen helps preachers use visual images creatively and responsibly. How, how much, when, what equipment, use of teams, relationship to exegesis, different varieties of images, sources—all the essential topics and concerns are addressed here. Jensen first discusses how vital, if controversial, imagemaking has always been in Christian tradition and then demonstrates how preaching with images is both profoundly traditional and necessary to contemporary proclamation. He combines practical advice with religious reflection to enable preachers help thei

Authors:Melinda A. Quivik, O. Wesley Allen,
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: preaching, elements, worship, serving, word
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0800661982
ISBN-13: 9780800661984

This book invites the reader to see how God’s word can become the crux not only of the sermon but of the worship service as a whole. Over the past half-century, worship scholars have found a substantial ecumenical worship pattern in Luke’s story of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearance on the road and at the table in Emmaus. In that word-and-meal structure, the relationship between preaching and worship as distinct aspects of liturgical experience breaks down. The preached word, then, and the liturgical event within which preaching is located become integral to each other. This

Author: Keith Willhite
Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional
Keywords: preaching, series, relevance
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-06-30
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0825441145
ISBN-13: 9780825441141

An indispensable guide to preaching that makes God’s Word relevant to every listener without "dumbing down" its message. "Like pizza, expository messages often come in two distinct forms: deep dish or thin and crispy. Either the content is so ’deep’ that we cannot possibly discern what we’re really eating or the toppings are so sparse that, an hour later, we wonder why we bothered ordering. "How do we preach substantive biblical content with relevance, without becoming too thin? This book develops ten strategies toward preaching that firmly root the message in the