The Moody Handbook of Preaching
Overview
Why is it that some can preach for an hour and it seems like five minutes, while others preach for only five minutes and it seems like an hour? The Moody Handbook of Preaching answers this question—first asked by Haddon Robinson—and many others through the experience, knowledge, and understanding of men and women who are experts in their fields and who love God and his church.
Chapters are divided into four sections—Forming a Philosophy of Preaching, Mining the Text, Illustrating Truth, and Developing Methodology—that offer a multidisciplinary approach to preaching.
Seasoned pastors and rookie seminarians alike will benefit from this handbook that features the work of graduate and undergraduate professors at Moody Bible Institute as well as three Moody presidents. Discover insights and greater understanding on your path to better preaching.
Topics
- Why expository preaching?
- How women hear the sermon
- Preaching historical narrative
- Exegeting your audience
- Drama and the sermon
- Using technology to enhance the sermon
- Sermons that move
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Top Highlights
“Biblical poetry is intensified discourse, marked by 1) terse lines, 2) overt parallelism, 3) frequent figures, 4) and formal structure.” (Page 165)
“First, didactic preaching should recognize the literary peculiarities of a didactic discourse.” (Page 145)
“Fourth, didactic preaching should think in terms of propositional development” (Page 150)
“So, why expository preaching? Because when you stand before a group of children, students, adults, men and women, you will be able to tell them, ‘This is what God says.’” (Page 36)
“Finally, the preacher must make a bridge from the occasion of the epistle.” (Page 148)
Product Details
- Title: The Moody Handbook of Preaching
- Author: John Koessler
- Publisher: Moody
- Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 320
About John Koessler
John Koessler is the chairman of the pastoral studies department at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Before John began his career at Moody in 1994, he served as a pastor. He has written for Discipleship Journal, Leadership, Moody Magazine, Decision, and Christianity Today, and has made numerous radio appearances. He is the author of True Discipleship, God Our Father, and A Stranger in the House of God.