Preaching on Your Feet: Connecting God and The Audience in the Preachable Moment
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
“Preaching on your feet” is the phrase public speaker and pastor Fred Lybrand uses to describe his unique method of pulpit communication. In layman’s terms, it involves being “in the moment,” not solely relying on pre-written notes (though they can still be helpful), and staying open to what God might have in store during any given preaching appointment. It all adds up to a heart-to-heart style of delivery that makes preaching a joy for both the orator and listener time and again. Aspiring and veteran pastors alike will find much to consider and implement in this refreshing new volume on homiletics.
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- Speaks to new, young preachers who see preaching the Word of God as an awesome responsibility with eternal impact, as well as to older preachers who have worked long enough to know the realities of study, audience, and of what people will or won't learn
- Claims that the most effective preachers are those who "preach on their feet" because they connect to real human beings in a real moment in time
- Points to Jesus' way of communicating spiritual truths from "heart to heart and from eye to eye"
Top Highlights
“preaching is about connecting a message from God through the preacher to the audience in the moment” (source)
“we’ve lost something in our pulpits; we’ve lost the skill of authentic heart-to-heart communication” (source)
“they insist that in an expository sermon a text is explained, understood, and applied to the listener” (source)
“‘the communication of a biblical concept, derived from and transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context, which the Holy Spirit first applies to the personality and experience of the preacher, then through him to his hearers.’” (source)
“The fire and the heartbeat in a sermon are formed in the preparation, not in the moment. If a preacher is to preach with earnestness and intensity, with fire and heart, then he must acquire the burden of the message in the preparation.” (source)
- Title: Preaching on Your Feet: Connecting God and The Audience in the Preachable Moment
- Author: Fred R. Lybrand
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Pastoral theology › 21st century; Preaching; Religion
- ISBNs: 9781430076063, 9780805464580, 0805464581, 1430076062
- Resource ID: LLS:9780805464580
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:57:15Z