Writing For The Ear Preaching From The Heart

Author : Donna Giver-Johnston
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 150646324X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart written by Donna Giver-Johnston and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words bombard us every day. Words can be noisy and cheap. And yet, words are all preachers have. In Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart, Donna Giver-Johnston addresses the question: How do you capture ears in an era of noise? Many preachers want to get away from their notes and make a more personal connection with their listeners, but they have not been mentored in methods that enable them to do that. Grounded in a theology of incarnation and articulation and coupled with an awareness of what listeners most need and want to hear, Giver-Johnston explains how preachers can communicate more effectively--how they can write sermons for the ear, with the fewest, most impactful words to craft a memorable message. She also provides guidance on how to preach sermons by heart, without notes, to communicate a message that captures the ears and hearts of listeners. In a time when attention spans are shortening and church participation is declining, this book provides a proven method for preachers to communicate in ways that are meaningful and memorable to aching ears today and that can change the world for good, and for God, one longing heart at a time.

Author : Mike Graves
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664226329
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's the Matter with Preaching Today? written by Mike Graves and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-five years ago, renowned preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick asked in Harper's Magazine, "what's the matter with preaching?" Fosdick's question is even more relevant today, as both pastors and laity acknowledge the need for improvement in Sunday morning's sermons. And who better for pastors and students to learn from than those who already do it well? The contributors to this book are a some of the best and most thoughtful preachers in the church and classroom today. In their essays, they assess the state of preaching today, identify a variety of issues that challenge effective preaching, and offer helpful suggestions for what can be done to improve preaching. In the process, they help to define what effective preaching is.

Author : Amy Peed McCullough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498291643
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Preaching Body written by Amy Peed McCullough and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preacher's body is a tool for proclamation, a vehicle by which a sermon comes to life. Female preachers, engaged in a task not long their own, know well the added attention directed to their physicality. They can experience ordinary decisions about attire, accessories, hairstyles, and movement as complex, and occasionally precarious, choices around how to bring flesh to their sermons. They can also experience the extraordinary power of their bodies, when materiality weighs in on the message. McCullough explores the every-Sunday bodily decisions of contemporary female preachers, with an eye to uncovering the meanings about body, preaching, and God alive underneath. Ultimately, she argues for a renewed understanding of embodiment, in which one's living body, inescapably intertwined with her preaching, becomes the avenue for greater knowledge about how to preach and deeper insight into the faith professed.

Author : Kate Bruce
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334053196
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Igniting the Heart written by Kate Bruce and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the day of the sermon is over. Kate Bruce argues that the day of the poorly conceived, ill prepared, dull, disconnected, boring, irrelevant, authoritarian, yawn-inducing, patronizing, pontificating, pointless and badly delivered sermon, is indeed over. Imagination can help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than to inform. Imagination frames how we see the world and ourselves in it. As such it has a vital role in how preachers see the preaching task itself, which in turn affects how we go about the task. A theology of imagination is presented to demonstrate the central importance of imagination in the life of faith. Allied to this is an analysis of the sacramental nature of preaching and the role of imagination in enabling the ‘aha, now I get it’ moment of sacramental ‘seeing-as’. Connected to enabling new seeing, preaching in the lyrical voice is defined and discussed along with the importance of preachers shaping sermons for the ear.

Author : Karoline M. Lewis
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 150646274X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lay Preacher's Guide written by Karoline M. Lewis and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Lay Preacher's Guide: How to Craft a Faithful Sermon, Karoline M. Lewis provides lay preachers with an essential and accessible guide to the basics of Sunday morning preaching. Laypeople are increasingly called to serve congregations and are preaching regularly. But often they do not have immediate, reliable, or trusted access to homiletical instruction or support for their preaching. As a result, these church leaders--feeling called to ministry and to preach, and affirmed by denominational leaders to do so--are left on their own to figure out how to preach. In A Lay Preacher's Guide, Lewis gives this unique subset of preachers the foundations of biblical preaching, so they can preach faithfully in their unique contexts. She lays out in a concise and clear format the steps to preaching a faithful sermon, a process that can be immediately applied to weekly sermon preparation. This book is a go-to resource for lay preachers, providing a basic course for faithful preaching.

Author : Edward Foley
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814663419
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Catholic Preaching written by Edward Foley and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While admitting particular parameters and priorities for Roman Catholic preachers, this volume was intentionally envisioned as a handbook for "catholic" preaching in the broadest and most universal sense of that term. Cosponsored by the Catholic Academy of Liturgy, the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics, and the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, it covers the role of the Scriptures in preaching, the challenges of preaching in a digital age, sermonizing in an interfaith context, and the need for a liberative and prophetic word that cuts across denominations and even faith traditions. Intended to aid those who teach or direct the preaching arts, the design and writing style of this book are particularly calibrated to graduate students in ministerial studies. Every article is a self-contained overview of a particular historical period, genre of preaching, homiletic theory, or contemporary issue. This more encyclopedic approach—devoid of footnotes, yet supported by pertinent bibliography and an extensive index—provides a sufficiently rich yet thoroughly accessible gateway to major facets of the preaching arts at this stage of the twenty-first century. General Editor: Edward Foley Associate Editors: Catherine Vincie, Richard N. Fragomeni Contributors: Herbert Anderson, John F. Baldovin, Alden Lee Bass, Dianne Bergant, Stephen Bevans, Robert Bireley, John Carr, Anthony Collamati, Michael E. Connors, Guerric DeBona, Frank DeSiano, William T. Ditewig, Con Foley, Edward Foley, Richard N. Fragomeni, Ann M. Garrido, Gregory Heille, Lucy Lind Hogan, Patrick R. Lagges, David J. Lose, Barbara K. Lundblad, Ricky Manalo, Robert F. Morneau, Carolyn Muessig, vanThanh Nguyen, Mary Margaret Pazdan, Patricia Parachini, Jorge Presmanes, Craig Alan Satterlee, Catherine Vincie, Richard Vosko, James A. Wallace, Margaret Moers Wenig, Alex Zenthoefer

Author : Beverly Zink-Sawyer
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506465803
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Every Matter under Heaven written by Beverly Zink-Sawyer and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For everything there is a season," as the writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us, and that includes preaching. Beyond ordinary Sunday morning worship, many other "seasons"--special occasions--arise for preaching in the life of the church, whether by virtue of the secular calendar or celebrations or circumstances in the congregation or community. For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions offers preachers a process for creating sermons that are biblically grounded and relevant to the occasion. Two obvious occasions of this sort are weddings and funerals; however, church anniversaries, dedications of new buildings or furnishings, commitment of pledges in stewardship season, and ordination and installation services also call for preaching on a special theme or topic. In addition, some congregations acknowledge secular holidays, such as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving Day, in worship. Pastors are often called on to preach at events outside the church. And all congregations face local or national tragedies and crises that call for a word from the Lord. These occasions require a different kind of sermon--or at least a different process of preparation. Most preachers have been taught that sermons begin with a biblical text, usually a text prescribed by a standard lectionary. Beverly Zink-Sawyer and Donna Giver-Johnston offer preachers a process for finding appropriate sermon texts for special occasions by considering the occasion itself, the listeners who might be gathered, and the ways God is at work in that time and place. Through this process, preachers can offer a word for every matter under heaven.

Author : Barbara Brown Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156101074X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Preaching Life written by Barbara Brown Taylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Taylor emphasizes the holy dimensions of ordinary life and describes the essentials of faith with insight and humor, touching on the vocations, imagination, worship, sacraments, ministry and the Bible as they relate to the life of faith.

Author : Dave McClellan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941337028
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preaching by Ear written by Dave McClellan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Kenton Anderson, professor of homiletics at ACTS Seminaries of Trinity Western University, this volume represents "a powerful tool" because it offers a new (actually old) model of preaching. For centuries, preaching has been shaped from a literary standpoint (i.e., reading, writing, outlining, and displaying sermons), but a premodern method of oral preparation and delivery has largely been forgotten.'Preaching by Ear?hearkens back to an earlier era when sermons were rooted inside the preacher and moved out in a natural and powerful way.'

Author : Sally Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Zonderkidz
ISBN 13 : 0310740517
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sally Lloyd-Jones and Jago, the creators of the bestselling The Jesus Storybook Bible, comes a gorgeous and innovative collection of 101 simple-yet-profound thoughts on faith, to turn the reader’s eyes toward the God who loves them with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love. Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing shares: Profound spiritual truths from the Bible in a conversational tone—drawing insights from creation, history, and science The writings of great thinkers, preachers, writers, and more—to remind children that God loves them with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love This wonderful collection: Contains 101 readings on a variety of topics that will help you and your children look at the world in a new, fresh way Teaches children ages six and up about God’s love through word and image Is perfect for family devotions, bedtime, story time, or even as an inspirational companion to The Jesus Storybook Bible Includes beautiful, colorful artwork on every page Has a sturdy binding and pages that hold up to years of daily use, even with little hands Makes a wonderful gift for Christmas, Easter, baptisms, and birthdays