Models for Biblical Preaching: Expository Sermons from the Old Testament
Overview
Making the Old Testament accessible to modern audiences can prove especially challenging. This companion volume to the bestselling Biblical Preaching provides model sermons which demonstrate biblical preaching on Old Testament texts. These helpful examples allow preachers to see the theory of Haddon Robinson’s classic work fleshed out in actual sermons from exemplary preachers. Following each sermon, Robinson offers a brief commentary and interviews the preacher, providing students with practical insight into ministry life and sermon preparation.
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- Presents actual sermons from exemplary preachers
- Demonstrates biblical preaching on Old Testament texts
- Provides students with practical insight into ministry life and sermon preparation
- “Climbing Test Mountain: Genesis 22:1–19” by Bryan Wilkerson
- “How to Say God’s Name: Exodus 20:7” by Eric Dokken
- “The Story of the Left-Handed Assassin and the Obese King: Judges 3:12–30” by Steve Mathewson
- “Dealing with Doubt: A Story: Psalm 73” by Patricia Batten
- “Sounds That Make a Noise: Proverbs 22:1” by Sid Buzzell
- “Ego Adjustment: Ecclesiastes 3:9–15” by Scott Wenig
- “There Is Value in Remembering: Isaiah 43:1–3a” by Ramona Spilman
- “The Place of the Preacher: Jeremiah 1” by Kent Edwards
- “The Insanity of Stewardship: Daniel 4” by Torrey Robinson
- “What Do You Care About? Jonah 1–4” by Matthew Kim
- “God’s Justice and Love: Topical” by Chris Dolson
Top Highlights
“God’s people self-destruct when they live like their pagan neighbors” (Page 43)
“Remember, our life is not about our comforts. It is about loving God, loving others, and spreading the Word of God.” (Page 164)
“Are you prepared to trust God with your greatest treasures, with your deepest needs, with your highest hopes” (Page 10)
“How do you take passages written in the long ago and far away and help modern men and women see the eternal significance? That is a challenge whether the passage is from Leviticus or Luke.” (Page viii)
“95 percent of what I discover when I’m looking at the Hebrew and Greek text doesn’t get mentioned” (Page 56)
- Title: Models for Biblical Preaching: Expository Sermons from the Old Testament
- Authors: Haddon W. Robinson, Patricia Batten
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Sermons; Preaching
- ISBNs: 9781441219824, 9780801049378, 144121982X, 0801049377
- Resource ID: LLS:MDLSBBLCLPRCHNG
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:29:06Z
Patricia Batten teaches homiletics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. She has also served various churches in pastoral or preaching roles. She earned a MTh at University of Edinburgh as well as a DMin and MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Haddon Robinson is the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He received his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, an MA from Southern Methodist University, and a PhD from the University of Illinois. Robinson served as director of the Dallas Youth for Christ (1952–55), associate pastor of the First Baptist Church in Medford, Oregon (1956–58), and an instructor of speech at the University of Illinois (1960–62). He was president of Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary and taught homiletics at Dallas Theological Seminary for nineteen years. He is also the editor of Biblical Sermons: How Twelve Preachers Apply the Principles of Biblical Preaching.