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 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 [...]
How to Preach Narratives with Variety, Part 3 (Interpreting Narratives)
Posted: May 13, 2011 in Preaching NarrativesTags: Grant Osborne's The Hermeneutical Spiral, h, Howard's An Introduction to the Old Testament Historical Books, Steven D. Mathewson's The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative
“A storyteller’s perspective determines how listeners experience and understand a story. Robert Fulgham offers a hilarious example about his neighbor’s encounter with a spider web. Here is the scene from Fulgham’s perspective, just as he saw it happen: This is my neighbor. Nice lady. Coming out her front door, on her way to work and [...]
How to Preach Narratives With Variety, Part 2 (Six Inductive Sermons)
Posted: May 10, 2011 in Preaching NarrativesTags: Bryon Chapell's Using Illustrations to Preach with Power, Charles R. Swindoll's Killing Giants, David C. Duel, Haddon W. Robinson's Biblical Sermons, Inductive Preaching: Helping People Listen, John C. Holbert's Preaching Old Testament: Proclamation and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible, Pulling Thorns, Ralph and Gregg Lewis, Richard A. Jensen's Telling the Story: Variey and Imagination in Preaching, Steven D. Mathewson
Previously in Part 1, we discussed preaching narratives with variety by using the three deductive sermons with either the demand, declaration, or question proposition. In this post, we will consider six inductive narrative styles and the also the inductive/deductive narrative style to add variety to your narrative preaching. First, the two categories of inductive preaching [...]
