What Is the Gospel?
Title | What Is the Gospel? PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan Chapell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-03-02 |
Genre | Salvation |
ISBN | 9781433526756 |
The gospel is the glorious truth about Christ, and it enfolds us in the global purpose of God by renewing hearts, empowering lives, and transforming the world. A Gospel Coalition booklet.
Preaching
Title | Preaching PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Keller |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2015-06-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0698195094 |
Pastor, preacher, and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shares his wisdom on communicating the Christian faith from the pulpit as well as from the coffee shop. Most Christians—including pastors—struggle to talk about their faith in a way that applies the power of the Christian gospel to change people’s lives. Timothy Keller is known for his insightful, down-to-earth sermons and talks that help people understand themselves, encounter Jesus, and apply the Bible to their lives. In this accessible guide for pastors and laypeople alike, Keller helps readers learn to present the Christian message of grace in a more engaging, passionate, and compassionate way.
George Buttrick's Guide to Preaching the Gospel
Title | George Buttrick's Guide to Preaching the Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Charles N. Davidson JR, |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1791001750 |
“Does the preacher now impress us as a ‘legate of the skies’? To many he is a pathetic figure, an anachronism, a stage-joke—an inoffensive little person jostled by the crowd, and wearing the expression of a startled rabbit. With one hand he holds a circular hat on a bewildered head and with the other desperately clutches an umbrella. The crowd pushes him from the sidewalk; the traffic shoots him back into the crowd. Some curse him; a few laugh; most are unaware of his existence.” (George Buttrick, Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1931). Whether we need preaching has been asked for hundreds of years, long before an age of media saturation from streaming 24-hour news, entertainment, politics, and sports. This question hounded George Buttrick, one of the most profound preachers of the twentieth century and often compared with Billy Graham. Buttrick offers a compelling answer to the question, but his answer remained hidden for 40 years until now. In George Buttrick’s Guide to Preaching the Gospel, we learn why the world needs competent preachers, what the preacher must preach about, and how the preacher goes about creating the sermon with daily discipline and several practiced skills, including research, charting, outlining, writing, and performance. These writings have never been published before and were found by his grandchildren after his death. A brief biography of Buttrick introduces this master orator and professor to readers who do not know his work.
The Scandal of the Gospel
Title | The Scandal of the Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Charles L. Campbell |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | 131 |
Release | 2021-10-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1646982207 |
Through its shocking incongruities and transgressive forms, the grotesque offers an intriguing lens for exploring the scandal of the gospel and the challenges of Christian preaching. Drawing on diverse sources—from Swedish crime fiction and contemporary poetry to James Cone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Pussy Riot—this book will examine the theological, homiletical, and social implications of a grotesque gospel for contemporary preachers. The book focuses on three aspects of preaching and the grotesque: (1) the ways in which a grotesque gospel unsettles the preacher and challenges the "false patterns" that often shape Christian preaching; (2) the importance and challenges of resisting the weaponized grotesque, which dehumanizes people and furthers the power of dominant groups; (3) the incarnate Word as the carnivalesque, grotesque body of Jesus, which calls the church to become the porous and inclusive body of Christ. The Scandal of the Gospel is the written adaptation of Yale Divinity School's Beecher Lectures, given by Charles Campbell in 2018. The last chapter, "Preaching and the Environmental Grotesque," is a new addition.
Excellent Preaching
Title | Excellent Preaching PDF eBook |
Author | Craig G. Bartholomew |
Publisher | Lexham Press |
Total Pages | 71 |
Release | 2016-02-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1577996518 |
The goal of preaching is to let the powerful message of the Bible penetrate the lives of your congregation. A well-crafted sermon can help to bridge the gap between biblical context and contemporary application. In Excellent Preaching, Craig Bartholomew explains why we need to be acquainted with both the context of Scripture and the context in which we preach. Good contextualization is hard work, but Bartholomew shows that it can be done. Practical, accessible, and rooted in years of preaching experience, this short book helps preachers connect the message of the text to everyday life.
Sex, Dating, and Relationships
Title | Sex, Dating, and Relationships PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Hiestand |
Publisher | Crossway |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 2012-02-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433527146 |
Considering the pervasive immorality and high divorce rate of our contemporary Christian culture, we evidently need a biblically based, theologically compelling, practical understanding of sex, dating, and relationships. Pastors Gerald Hiestand and Jay Thomas counteract this problem with their paradigm-shifting view of purity and relationships—a view that challenges even the basic assumptions of evangelical subculture. Unlike most books on dating, this one cuts straight to the heart of dating relationships, asserting with confidence that the line must be drawn at "no sexual activity" whatever. Few have dared to define and apply the Bible's understanding of purity in premarital relationships to this degree, but Heistand and Thomas have done it. Furthermore, both authors are vocational pastors who communicate regularly with the target audience and have a proven ability to express biblical truth in a winsome and compelling manner. Sex, Dating, and Relationships adds a new, almost provocative voice to the conversation that, with straightforward theological insight, pleads with Christians to get serious about honoring Christ with their sexuality.
Preaching in the New Testament
Title | Preaching in the New Testament PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Griffiths |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | 173 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830889728 |
Is "preaching" mandated in the post-apostolic context, and if so, how does it relate to the preaching of the Old Testament prophets and of Jesus and his apostles? In this NSBT volume Jonathan Griffiths seeks answers to these questions in the New Testament, surveying the Scripture and setting his exegetical findings within the context of biblical theology.