The exegesis of scene three enables us to make this Summary Statement: The solution to Hannah’s problem of barrenness is selfless prayer. The Summary Statement which is the meaning for the original audience will be converted into a Timeless Principle or meaning for our modern audience: Our solution for the barrenness of leadership is selfless [...]
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The Importance of Identifying the Plot and Scenes in Narrative Preaching, Part Three
Posted: May 24, 2012 in Preaching NarrativesTags: chiasmus, conditional clause, Narrative preaching, protasis, religion, spirituality, theology
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The Importance of Identifying the Plot and Scenes in Narrative Preaching, Part Two
Posted: May 23, 2012 in Preaching NarrativesTags: chiasmus, Fokkelman's Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel, God, habitual action, independent clause, P. Kyle McCarter's The Anchor Bible, religion, theology
Exegesis of scene two in 1 Samuel 1 equips us to make this the summary statement for scene two: The solution to Hannah’s barrenness is neither polygamy nor retaliation. This summary statement or meaning for the original audience will be converted to a timeless principle for our modern audience: The solution for the barrenness of [...]
The Importance of Identifying the Plot and Scenes in Narrative Preaching, Part One
Posted: May 22, 2012 in Preaching NarrativesTags: action verbs, human-rights, iterative action, Narrative preaching, religion, Robert Alter's Art of Biblical Narrative, state of being verbs, theology, Walter Brueggemann
An Exegetical Study of 1 Samuel 1:1-28 Plot and scenes examined Plot Each of the three major divisions of the plot, beginning, middle, and end, has its unique characteristics. Introduction of the characters and the conflict characterizes the beginning. This information is static and timeless and is presented with state of being verbs. Robert Alter [...]
How To Preach So People Will Listen, Part 2: Gestures in Preaching
Posted: April 3, 2012 in Homiletics/PreachingTags: Biblical Preaching by Haddon Robinson, Steven Mathewson's The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative
Haddon Robinson opens chapter 10 “How To Preach So People Will Listen” with an important reminder: Most books on preaching say a great deal about the development of the sermon but little about its delivery. That is reflected in the way we preach. While ministers spend hours every week on sermon construction, they seldom give [...]
How to Preach So People Will Listen, Part 1: Delivery of Sermon
Posted: March 29, 2012 in Homiletics/PreachingTags: Biblical Preaching by Haddon Robinson, C. John Miller, Haddon Robinson, Steven Mathewson, The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative
C. John Miller taught homiletics at Westminster and was listening to a taped sermon that one of his students had preached at a nearby church as an assignment. “He was not exactly reading the manuscript, but he was heavily dependent on it. I could feel that his interest was not in his listeners, but in [...]
Piper Believes Video Clips Weakens Preaching
Posted: March 2, 2012 in Homiletics/PreachingTags: bethlehem baptist church in minneapolis, Church, entertainment, Illustrations in preaching, John Piper, Michael Duduit, Preaching Magizine, religion, theology, video, Video clips in preaching
Two heavy weights in the preaching arena, John Piper and Michael Duduit, duke it out over the use of video clips and dramas in preaching. We report. You decide. John Piper is the Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the other corner is Dr. Michael Duduit, editor of Preaching Magazine and author of Communicate with Power and Preaching with [...]
Do We Want to Improve or Just be Approved?
Posted: February 2, 2012 in Homiletics/PreachingTags: Andy Stanley, Brian Tracy, Charles H. Spurgeon, J. Oswald Sanders' Spiritual Leadership, John Maxwell, Mark Driscoll, Maximum Achievement, Michael Duduit, Preaching Now, Vintage Church
Spurgeon would occasionally find a nasty anonymous letter lying on his pulpit when he would stand up to preach. There would be a letter but no name. One day he got to the pulpit and there was a piece of paper with one word written in large letters….IDIOT…. So Spurgeon said to his congregation, “Normally [...]
How To Preach Narratives with Variety, Part 6
Posted: May 18, 2011 in Preaching NarrativesTags: Robert Alter's Art of Biblical Narrative
The final literary device used by the writer of narratives that needs to be appreciated by the interpreter and preacher of narratives is dialogue. The importance of dialogue is stated by Alter: “Narration is thus often relegated to the role of confirming assertions made in dialogue–occasionally, as here, with an explanatory gloss” (Alter, The Art [...]
