Narrative Reading Narrative Preaching

Author : Joel B. Green,Michael III Pasquarello
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441206541

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Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching by Joel B. Green,Michael III Pasquarello Pdf

There is often an unfortunate division between the technical work of biblical scholars and the practical work of preachers who construct sermons each week. These two fields of study, which ought to be mutually informed and supportive, are more often practically divided by divergent methods, interests, and goals. Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching aims to bridge that divide. Using narrative as an organizing theme, the contributors work through the New Testament offering examples of how interpretation can rightly inform proclamation. Three pairs of chapters feature an exemplary reading by a New Testament scholar followed by a sermon informed by that reading. Introductory and concluding chapters provide guidance for application of the model. Pastors and seminarians will find here a uniquely practical work that will help them with both the reading and preaching of Scripture.

Author : J. Kent Edwards
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310314554

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Effective First-Person Biblical Preaching by J. Kent Edwards Pdf

The Steps from Text to Narrative SermonPresenting biblically centered sermons in a new,creative genrePastors and teachers are always on the lookout for newways to expand the effectiveness of their preaching.Sermons delivered in the first-person point of view canweave the power of story and drama into the biblicalteaching, making familiar—and not-so-familiar—characters and situations come to life. This book helpsstudents and pastors understand how first-personsermons can be preached with biblical integrity. Itextends Haddon Robinson’s “big idea” philosophy ofpreaching to this new genre.J. Kent Edwards takes a practical approach as he walksreaders through the steps needed for creating sermonsthat are faithful to the text and engaging to the listener.Examples and worksheets enable readers to apply thisunique approach to one of their own sermons. The bookincludes a CD-ROM with a video sample of first-personnarrative preaching.

Author : Mike Graves
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620328736

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The Story of Narrative Preaching by Mike Graves Pdf

Forty years ago the one thing that could be said about sermons was they were biblical. Unfortunately, they were sometimes tedious too. Narrative preaching aimed to fix that, advocating for a dynamic experience of the text over against a static lecture. Preaching could be like the parables of Jesus, intriguing and compelling. The Story of Narrative Preaching is the story of seven students who are enrolled in Professor Freeman's preaching course. Once a new trend, narrative preaching is now older than most of them. As Professor Freeman notes, two things went wrong with narrative styles: over time the church became biblically and theologically illiterate, and the promised stress on experience didn't always measure up to the weight of the gospel. Readers are invited to sit in on the class, to reflect on the expositional nature of preaching and to experience the stories of some modern storytellers--Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and others--to see what they might teach us about narratives of depth. In the end we discover what may be the most important word in preaching.

Author : John W. Wright
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830827404

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Telling God's Story by John W. Wright Pdf

John W. Wright presents a new model of preaching that aims to connect the biblical text with a congregation so that they are formed into a true Christian community.

Author : Jeffrey W. Frymire
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666732771

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Preaching from Inside the Story by Jeffrey W. Frymire Pdf

Preaching from Inside the Story is a book that seeks to carve out an understanding of narrative preaching in an age where there is little agreement about its nature and practice. Capitalizing on the works of Craddock and Lowry, it seeks to find an expanded palette upon which the preacher may engage the larger canvas of narrative preaching. This book will engage the mind by introducing neuroscientific understandings of creativity; build upon the foundations of the philosophy of stories by engaging Aristotle’s foundational understanding of narrative; and renew the Lowry Loop by expanding this seminal work and how it should be understood in our current culture. Preaching from Inside the Story breaks new ground by encouraging preachers to move inside stories and tell them from the inside out providing a positive effect, thereby affording non-narrative preachers to connect with storytelling principles. Ultimately, it is filled with examples of how to do narrative in a very practical way. However, in showing these practical examples, the reader is involved in a deep analysis of those narrative sermons and how they fit into an overall narrative understanding of preaching. In the final analysis, it invites the reader to take a fresh journey into narrative preaching.

Author : Steven D. Mathewson
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493430871

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The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative by Steven D. Mathewson Pdf

A veteran pastor with thirty years of experience guides readers through a ten-step process to preaching Old Testament narratives from text selection to delivery. The first edition received a Christianity Today award of merit and a Preaching magazine Book of the Year award. This edition, now updated and revised throughout for a new generation, includes a new chapter on how to preach Christ from the Old Testament and an exemplary sample sermon from Mathewson. Foreword by Haddon W. Robinson.

Author : Jon Russell
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334056539

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A Preacher's Tale by Jon Russell Pdf

Many clergy receive little training in the arts of preaching and it is assumed that they will learn by gaining experience. The renowned American preacher Herbert O’Driscoll suggests that congregations do not want to be given a map showing them how to get to the coast, they want to be drenched in the spray. Narrative preaching is a means of achieving such immediacy. By dramatic story-telling, it invites listeners into enter the text imaginatively and enables them to experience sermons as transformative events. This book aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship.

Author : Calvin Miller
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201238

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Preaching by Calvin Miller Pdf

Because they are speaking to a younger society more attuned to lively dialogue and visual images, pastors need a fresh wineskin for a timeless message of redemption. Calvin Miller, who has preached and equipped preachers for decades, offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors to deliver the heart of the gospel via the Jesus-endorsed vessel of compelling storytelling. For the working pastor, Miller's crash course on preaching is a welcomed study. Now available in trade paper.

Author : John C. Holbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621895732

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Telling the Whole Story by John C. Holbert Pdf

Telling the Whole Story is both a book about preaching and reading the narratives of the Hebrew Bible. John C. Holbert (PhD in Hebrew Bible) was a longtime teacher of preaching and Hebrew Bible at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, having retired in 2012 after thirty-three years. In this volume he combines his two skills of careful narrative reading and imaginative story preaching to offer the first comprehensive look at this particular kind of sermon proclamation. The reader will also find here an introduction to the long history of story preaching in the history of the church, as well as a primer both in ways to read the narratives more effectively and ways to preach several varieties of story sermons. At the heart of this book four narratives from the Hebrew Bible are exegeted and are accompanied by four story sermons based on those texts: Genesis 2-3; 1 Samuel 15; Judges 4; and Jonah. The goal of the book is to help preachers who are looking for effective ways to proclaim the gospel using narrative texts from the Hebrew Bible to allow the rich stories of the texts to sound their ancient truth to the modern world

Author : Mike Graves
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Angels
ISBN : 9780827242784

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What's the Shape of Narrative Preaching? by Mike Graves Pdf

They are there after an urgent need, a moment of desperation. Like Ellen Cardwell?s telling of a highway angel who helped Ellen and her husband resume their trip after car trouble on California?s desolate Highway 1. Or Delores Topliff?s memory from her childhood, when on the brink of starvation, an angel on a bicycle dropped off bags of groceries. These stories will challenge and reward your faith in God?a God Who tells us to entertain strangers and, possibly, Heavenly Company. Contained within this book is an exclusive collection of real-life encounters with God?s angels and mysterious helpful strangers. Best-selling author Cecil Murphey (coauthor of 90 Minutes in Heaven and more than one hundred other books) and his cowriter Twila Belk masterfully bring together brand-new reports from all over the world that share one thing in common: the way in which God uses messengers to touch our lives. Filled with hundreds of pages of stories that will excite your spirit and touch your heart, you?ll travel from Africa to Texas to Russia and back again. Curl up with this powerful book and read amazing true accounts of individuals who have encountered angels, both seen and unseen.

Author : Jonathan T. Pennington
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441238702

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Reading the Gospels Wisely by Jonathan T. Pennington Pdf

This textbook on how to read the Gospels well can stand on its own as a guide to reading this New Testament genre as Scripture. It is also ideally suited to serve as a supplemental text to more conventional textbooks that discuss each Gospel systematically. Most textbooks tend to introduce students to historical-critical concerns but may be less adequate for showing how the Gospel narratives, read as Scripture within the canonical framework of the entire New Testament and the whole Bible, yield material for theological reflection and moral edification. Pennington neither dismisses nor duplicates the results of current historical-critical work on the Gospels as historical sources. Rather, he offers critically aware and hermeneutically intelligent instruction in reading the Gospels in order to hear their witness to Christ in a way that supports Christian application and proclamation.

Author : Stanley Hauerwas,L. Gregory Jones
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579100650

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Why Narrative? by Stanley Hauerwas,L. Gregory Jones Pdf

Narrative Theology is still with us, to the delight of some and to the chagrin of others. 'Why Narrative?Ó is in reprint because it represents what is still a very important question. This diverse collection of essays on narrative theology has proven very useful in university and seminary theology classes. It is also of great use as a primer for the educated layperson or church study group. Jones and Hauerwas have done an excellent job of selecting representative essays that deal with appeals to narrative in areas such as personal identity and human action, biblical hermeneutics, epistemology, and theological and ethical method.

Author : Dale Ralph Davis
Publisher : Mentor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1845501926

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The Word Became Fresh by Dale Ralph Davis Pdf

"There is no more gifted expositor of the Old Testament in our day than Ralph Davis. His book not only brings scholarly research to bear on the subject, but also reflects his many years of preaching week after week through the OT. What a gift to the church to have such a fine book." Richard Pratt

Author : Wayne Bradley Robinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556352706

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Journeys toward Narrative Preaching by Wayne Bradley Robinson Pdf

ÒThis volume is the outcome of the work of six members of the Narrative and Imagination working group of the Academy of Homiletics. . . . ÒWe hope that this volume will encourage those who have not tried narrative preaching to do so, especially since we present a variety of models of how to do narrative preaching and show how each of us moved toward the particular model we present. We also hope that this volume will contribute to the development of the discipline of narrative preaching. . . . When done well, narrative preaching has the power to effect the kind of transformation in people's lives which we all hope for when we as vehicles attempt to communicate the good news. ÒThis is so in part because narrative preaching both reflects and impacts on the narrative quality of life as we live it. We recognize ourselves in narratives, and we can imagine ourselves changed through narrative in a way that does not often happen through other means of preaching. -- from the Introduction Contributors: Robert G. Hughes Eugene L. Lowry Wayne Bradley Robinson Lucy Rose Richard L. Thulin Michael E. Williams

Author : David L. Larsen
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0825498619

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Telling the Old, Old Story (Larsen) by David L. Larsen Pdf