Preaching To A Postmodern World

Author : Graham M. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201505

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Preaching to a Postmodern World by Graham M. Johnston Pdf

While growing churches dot our urban centers and country landscapes, church-goers and students today are actually less likely to maintain a Christian worldview than in the past. In fact, the majority of society does not even believe in objective truth. A minister out of touch with this culture is like an uninformed missionary trying to teach in a foreign country. To communicate God's Word effectively in the twenty-first century, teachers need to know how to connect with and confront an audience of postmodern listeners. In Preaching to a Postmodern World, Johnston shows pastors, seminary students, professors, lay teachers, and church leaders can reach the present age without selling out to it. The book discusses how to: • distinguish between modernism and postmodernism • understand postmodern worldviews • change the style of preaching without compromising the substance • take advantage of new opportunities provided by the cultural shift • show an inattentive society the relevance of God's truth The author's keen insights into contemporary pop and media culture also help equip speakers to address today's listeners with clarity and relevance.

Author : R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575674025

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He is Not Silent by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Pdf

"Contemporary preaching suffers from a loss of confidence in the power of the Word, from an infatuation with technology, from an embarrassment before the biblical text, from an evacuation of biblical content, from a focus on felt needs, from an absence of gospel." Preaching, the practice of publicly expositing the Bible, has fallen on hard times. How did this happen? After all, as John A. Broadus famously remarked, “Preaching is characteristic of Christianity." In this powerful book, He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World, R. Albert Mohler Jr. shows us how. In a style both commanding and encouraging, Mohler lays the groundwork for preaching, fans the flame on the glory of preaching, and calls out with an urgent need for preaching. This message is desperately needed yet not often heard. Whether you're concerned or enthused by the state of the church today, join Mohler as he examines preaching and why the church can't survive without it.

Author : David J. Lose
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802849830

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Confessing Jesus Christ by David J. Lose Pdf

With its relentless insistence that there is no reality beyond that which we construct, postmodern thought questions the presuppositions of many disciplines, including homiletics. Offering a lively description of the postmodern worldview and its implications for Christian faith, Confessing Jesus Christ by David Lose teaches preachers how to rise to the challenges posed by our postmodern world. Few if any books on preaching offer such a comprehensive investigation of postmodern thought or yield such a wealth of insights for relevant Christian proclamation. Significantly, Lose sees postmodernism not primarily as an obstacle to the church but as an opportunity for it to stand once again on faith alone rather than on attempts to prove the faith. According to Lose, preaching that seeks to be both faithful to the Christian tradition and responsive to our pluralistic, postmodern context is best understood as the public practice of confessing faith in Jesus Christ. He explores the practical implications of a confessional homiletic for preaching and also provides concrete methods for preparing sermons that meaningfully bridge biblical texts and contemporary congregations.

Author : David J. Lose
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451452297

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Preaching at the Crossroads by David J. Lose Pdf

The world is changing, and preaching needs to do the same. With that change, the notion of truth need not be surrendered in a postmodern age, but it must be approached differently. David Lose argues that preaching is a confession made openly for the hearers to embrace and engage in the midst of the real lived world they experience.

Author : Craig A. Loscalzo
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815759

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Apologetic Preaching by Craig A. Loscalzo Pdf

Craig Loscalzo gives down-to-earth advice on how to communicate clearly and compellingly to a world that does not want to hear about morality, sin, evil, judgment or commitment. He gives straightforward explanations of the changes taking place all around us, including brief sample sermons in each chapter.

Author : Jonny Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 1851747206

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Transforming Preaching by Jonny Baker Pdf

Author : Zack Eswine
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201602

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Preaching to a Post-Everything World by Zack Eswine Pdf

Zack Eswine starts this unique pastoral resource with a captivating question: Could I now reach who I once was? Challenging the idea that today's preachers must do away with biblical or expository preaching if they are to reach non-Christian people, Eswine offers a way of preaching that embraces biblical exposition in missional terms. Recognizing all of the different cultural situations in which the gospel must be preached, he gives preachers practical advice on preaching in a global context while remaining faithful to the Bible. Pastors, seminarians, and church and ministry leaders who speak in various contexts will welcome this fresh, thoughtful examination of bringing the Word to today's multi-everything, post-everything world.

Author : Graham Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Postmodernism
ISBN : 1493404008

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Preaching to a Postmodern World by Graham Johnston Pdf

Challenges pastors to maintain the biblical message while investigating fresh means of communicating truth to postmodern listeners.

Author : John S McClure
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827227159

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Other-wise Preaching by John S McClure Pdf

"John McClure's book is a double treasure. It tracks the way North American homileticians have responded to the cultural, social, and philosophical movements of recent decades, and it introduces the reader to both linguistic and ethical ways to deconstruct preaching." - Edward Farley, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Author : Joel R. Breidenbaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990781674

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Preaching for Bodybuilding by Joel R. Breidenbaugh Pdf

How many times have you heard a sermon and walked away wanting more? How many times have you preached a message and wished you could have gone deeper into the text without leaving your audience scratching their heads? In Preaching for Bodybuilding, Joel Breidenbaugh, senior pastor and professor of homiletics, shows how the most faithful preaching begins by developing the preacher, who then proclaims God's message to listeners and helps them build their spiritual bodies into the image of Christ. Just as successful bodybuilders use workouts and planning, successful preachers must study and practice. Breidenbaugh traces doctrinal preaching and exposition through history, provides definitional clarity, surveys biblical examples, offers theological aids, shares practical advice and sample sermons, and reveals the beneficial elements of preparing and delivering doctrinal expository preaching, which can, and should, address the contemporary world while remaining rooted in theology. Recent studies reveal many evangelicals are biblically illiterate and theologically ignorant, which has inevitably been passed down by those occupying the pulpit. Preaching for Bodybuilding shows preachers how to integrate the two disciplines of theology and exposition and return to the Scriptures and its models, strengthening their preaching and helping the spiritual bodies of their audience grow. So, are you ready for a workout?

Author : Phil Snider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621894049

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Preaching After God by Phil Snider Pdf

Even though the postmodern return of religion is dramatically shaping the future of twenty-first-century theology, its riches for preaching are rarely mined. Preaching After God highlights the trajectories of the postmodern return of religion by introducing readers to the positive theological themes stirring in the work of influential philosophers like Jacques Derrida, John Caputo, and Slavoj Žižek. Phil Snider shows how engaging their thought provides possibilities for preaching that highly resonate with postmodern listeners. Preachers familiar with the postmodern return of religion will appreciate its homiletical appropriation, while those introduced to it for the first time will discover just how much it is helpful for the preaching task. Six lectionary-based sermons are included as examples.

Author : Brian Stiller
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451404530

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Preaching Parables to Postmoderns by Brian Stiller Pdf

Preachers, in their call to preach the Scriptures, are not only charged with the responsibility of speaking its truth but of speaking in such a way that people of this age and culture understand. To do this, the preacher builds a bridge between todays people and the gospel of both testaments. For some, this task is more difficult than for others. Preaching to those living in an inner-city housing project is far removed from an outpost mission in the two-thirds world. Each community has its own way of thinking and attaches different values to symbols of its own making. For those called preach to a generation raised on MTV and late-night comedians or those rooted in various economic culturesfrom governmentsponsored jobs overseen by union bosses to entrepreneurial dot-com companiesor generations stretching from high school students to "freedom fifty-fivers," the task is enormous. When one adds to that the complexity of a radical shift in underlying intellectual and cultural assumptions, the task of preaching becomes even more complicated.

Author : K. A. Beville
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443821872

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Preaching Christ in a Postmodern Culture by K. A. Beville Pdf

Starting with some observations relating to shifts in ecclesiology and identifying them as a move beyond contextualization to syncretism this work goes on to assess the feasibility of preaching in a postmodern culture which rejects both the idea of absolute truth and authority used as power. It traces the historical and philosophical development of postmodernism. The Enlightenment project is deemed to have failed and Christianity is perceived as an oppressive metanarrative. In a world that is becoming increasingly sceptical and where preaching practitioners are becoming disillusioned this book offers some guidelines about preaching to postmoderns. In a relational age rationality is impotent, but the author distinguishes between authoritative and authoritarian preaching allowing hope for the survival of the homiletic task. Humility is presented as preferable to certitude and persuasion is redefined. The author suggests using an inductive mode of communication as a means of engaging postmodern listeners. He signposts a way forward in the labyrinthine complexity of the new paradigm and demonstrates that the homiletic task is still feasible. Thus this book will be of interest to teachers and students of theology as well as pastors desiring to develop a new apologetic strategy.

Author : John Piper,David F. Wells,D. A. Carson,Voddie Baucham Jr.,Timothy Keller
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 158134922X

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The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World by John Piper,David F. Wells,D. A. Carson,Voddie Baucham Jr.,Timothy Keller Pdf

Believers who wish to thrive in a postmodern world must cling to the joy, truth, and love that comes only from understanding Christ and his ultimate purpose in this world.

Author : David F. Wells
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802824554

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Above All Earthly Pow'rs by David F. Wells Pdf

In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.