Preaching with Variety: How to Re-Create the Dynamics of Biblical Genres

by Jeffrey D. Arthurs

Publisher:

Kregel

, 2007

Overview

Preaching with Variety reveals how pastors can preach creatively by borrowing the dynamics of six genres or forms found in the Bible. Each chapter includes practical ?Try this? suggestions and ends with a quick checklist for preachers to consider when preaching from each of the six genres. Readers will learn how to expand their repertoire of creative, interesting, and relevant sermons.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Why preach with variety? Not because we’re trying to exalt self, but because we want to exalt God; not because we call the shots, but because God sets the pattern as the Great Communicator; not because we want to manipulate listeners, but because they speak Bantu. Let’s get on with it!” (Page 37)

“An epistle is a letter designed for wide circulation that addresses current issues and revives personal relationship” (Page 152)

“This chapter has given one reason that we should preach with variety, that is, because the text uses variety. The next chapter gives a second reason—the listeners.” (Page 28)

“The answer is to identify and preach an entire plot: a clear conflict, rising action, and climax.” (Page 86)

“psalm, narrative, parable, proverb, epistle, and apocalyptic” (Page 24)

Product Details

• Title: Preaching with Variety: How to Re-Create the Dynamics of Biblical Genres
• Author: Jeffrey D. Arthurs
• Publisher: Kregel
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Preaching › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9780825420191, 0825420199
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_1A15EB1308D146369282DB31E0B09010
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-17T18:58:47Z

About Jeffrey D. Arthurs

Jeffrey D. Arthurs (PhD, Purdue) is professor of preaching and communication at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. A past president of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, Arthurs has taught preaching and communication at a dozen colleges and seminaries, served as a teaching pastor, and continues an active ministry of pulpit supply and conference speaking. He is the author of Preaching with Variety and Devote Yourself to the Public Reading of Scripture.