Preaching the Living Word
Overview
A collection of advice on preaching, this volume discusses:
- How to put preaching back to its position of centrality in the church
- How to make preaching more effective
- How to structure Bible exposition
- How to preach from different parts of scripture
- How to preach doctrine
This resource is a comprehensive overview of how to make preaching memorable and accurate, and it helps the congregation to understand God's Word in a biblically literate way.
This will be an extremely helpful book for all who preach and for seminaries/colleges. It is not a book about style but about how to extract the best from the Word of God when delivering a message. The speakers are all able preachers and share their ideas about how to make the Bible relevant to the hearers.
- Guides to effective, Spirit-led sermon preparation
- Techniques for preaching that promotes church growth and vitality
Top Highlights
“Christian preaching is the event of God himself bringing to an audience a Bible-based, Christ-related, life-impacting message of instruction and direction through the words of a spokesperson.” (Page 28)
“We live in days in which the credibility of faithful biblical preaching is radically doubted, not only outside but inside the churches as well.” (Page 30)
“, topical as distinct from textual preaching has become common in North America (less so in Britain and elsewhere)” (Page 32)
“ low expectations become self-fulfilling. Where little is expected from sermons, little is received” (Page 32)
“the prevalence of non-preaching in Christian pulpits has eroded awareness of what true preaching is.” (Page 30)
In (Preaching the Living Word) there is the teaching of Scripture and its timely application to the contemporary world and church.
—George McEwen, Covenanter Witness
- Title: Preaching the Living Word
- Author: David Jackman
- Publisher: Christian Focus
- Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 224
