Editors Ian Paul and David Wenham present this collection of scholarly reflections on preaching from the New Testament. With an impressive cast of senior and younger scholars, the book covers all the main texts and genres of the New Testament, adding key chapters on the infancy narratives, parables, miracles, archaeology, hermeneutics and more.
... which is the word of God' (Eph. 6:13–17).5 As O'Brien and Plummer both argue, the nature of the living word of God and the gospel message itself are such that they naturally propel and perpetuate evangelistic outreach by believers.6 ...
This is a valuable resource that deserves a place on every preacher's bookshelf."-Michael Duduit, editor, Preaching magazine "This is the book I have been waiting for!
This book provides theological insights as well as practical sermon suggestions for preachers and seminary students.
This book makes plain that the man in the pulpit occupies a position of unrivaled significance in the life and destiny of his fellow man.
Walter Kaiser's Preaching and Teaching the Last Things shows us that we can know quite a lot. This is a helpful work for those who wonder how to preach or teach about the end with balance and clarity.
In this way, the power of the text itself can be harnessed, leading to sermons that inform and, most importantly, transform.
In this new volume, prolific scholar Walter Brueggemann seeks to show Christian preachers how to consider the faith witnessed in several Old Testament traditions and to help them discover rich and suggestive connections to our contemporary ...
Suggesting specific steps and providing concrete examples, this volume provides a practical guide for preaching Christ from the Old Testament.
The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.
Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching aims to bridge that divide. Using narrative as an organizing theme, the contributors work through the New Testament offering examples of how interpretation can rightly inform proclamation.