Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition

by Calvin Miller

Publisher:

Baker

, 2006

Overview

The challenge of contemporary preaching is packaging a message that holds the attention and touches the hearts of those who listen—while offering biblical substance in the process. Many preachers long to bring exposition and narrative together in a style that leads to transcendent moments. Calvin Miller has preached and equipped preachers for decades. In Preaching, he offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors and homiletics students to deliver the heart of the Gospel via the Jesus-approved vessel of compelling storytelling.

The Logos edition of this work on preaching is fully searchable and easily accessible. Scripture passages link directly to your English translations and to the original language texts, and important theological concepts link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the wealth of resources in your digital library.

Key Features

• Explores the combination of expository and narrative preaching
• Discusses how to preach attention-grabbing sermons

Contents

• Part 1: Analysis: The Exegesis of All Things
  • Who’s Talking? Exegeting the Preacher
  • Who’s Out There? Exegeting the Audience
  • Whadda Ya Hear Me Sayin’? Exegeting the Sermon
  • So What’s to Be Done Now? Exegeting the Call of the Sermon
• Part 2: Writing the Sermon
  • Dealing with the Text: Title, Theme, Pacing, and Preparing
  • Digging for Treasure: The Art of Exegesis
  • Imaging the Argument: Developing the Art of Writing the Story
• Part 3: Preaching the Sermon
  • Style: Delivering the Sermon
  • The Sermon Journey: Text and Altar

Top Highlights

“All in all, we may be sure that the sermon attendee of today listens with the eyes rather than the ears. It would be great to be sure that we are preaching in pictures, for pictures are the language of the age.” (Page 19)

“To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating. Passion makes preaching seem imperative and urgent. Narrative is a force that postmodern preachers must use and listeners must reckon with. Narrative handcuffs intrigue to the ancient text.” (Page 12)

“ Preachers must always be thinking of the application all the time they are dispensing information.” (Page 69)

“Third, preaching Christ means that we build within the sermon Christ’s own altar appeal.” (Page 63)

“Passion can never be genuine unless the preacher owns a burning need for a God-relationship. Zeal must own the herald before the herald can preach it into others. I believe that preachers who have no God-hunger may have some good things to say but they lack the passion that is essential to create the kingdom of God and transform the world.” (Page 16)

Praise for the Print Edition

One of our best preachers and writers tells us what he does best—and why and how.

—Eugene Peterson, pastor, scholar, and author

Miller comes as a master storyteller to teach us how to tell the Gospel to a generation thirsting for narratives to explain our world.

—Bryan Chapell, chancellor, Covenant Theological Seminary

[This book] can change your preaching for a lifetime.

—Haddon Robinson, Harold John Ockenga Professor of Preaching, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition
• Author: Calvin Miller
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 2006
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 288
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Preaching
• ISBNs: 9781441255891, 9780801012907, 9780801072437, 1441255893, 0801012902, 0801072433
• Resource ID: LLS:PREACHARTNARR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:22:13Z

About Calvin Miller

Calvin Miller (1936-2012) was a professor at Beeson Divinity School. The beloved author of more than forty books, Miller was also well known as a poet, artist, novelist and speaker. His later works included Preaching (Baker), O Shepherd Where Art Thou? (Broadman Holman) and Conversations with Jesus (Harvest House). He summed up his rule of life in four words: "Time is a gift."