We are finishing up the exegesis section of our sermon prep… What you should realize is that interpreting the text is not a simple thing. And you can do a lot more…
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Stylistic Exegesis For Preaching Powerful Sermons
Exegesis is simply a close reading of the scripture so that you can extract the meaning from the text. Before you can preach a text you must understand the text. You can…
Web Seminar Replay – Four Waves of Biblical Exegesis – Replay
This seminar was presented in May of 2009. A significant amount of our readers have not heard this seminar. So please listen to this one hour seminar that discusses how to interact…
The Stages of Exegesis – Updated
I just realized that I do not have any posts that give an outline of my method for exegesis. Here is the basic process.
- Prayer – You should not open the Bible without praying for the guidance of the Spirit in understanding the principles found in the text.
Improving Storytelling in Preaching Step 1 – Sensory Exegesis
African American Preaching is about encouraging the people to have an encounter with the Bible story. How do you do this? How do you strengthen your storytelling ability specifically for preaching? In the next 5 posts, I will present Rev. Martha Simmons’ steps to help preachers “tell the story.” These steps are from her and Henry Mitchell’s book entitled Study Guide to Accompany Celebration and Experience in Preaching.
Preaching To Real People
I often talk about preaching to “Real People Going Through Real Issues.” I use the term “Preaching to Grandma and Dem?” Preaching to “Grandma and Dem” is an attempt to insure that…
Seeing Through The Fog
I was driving on a country road in some dense fog early one morning. I had on my head lights… But I still couldn’t see very far in front of me… But…
Two Hard Texts To Preach
There are two categories of texts that are very hard to preach. They are close to impossible to even read beyond a superficial level. The first category of texts that are very…
The Young and The Text-less
“Hey Doc, I got a sermon, can you help me find a text so that I can preach it?” A young preacher asked me through email. He was so excited. He immediately…
Bring Energy To The Pulpit
I saw a chorister lead a few hymns. And then another one… And the difference was striking… The energy from the congregation was much different between the two. The difference between the…
Seeing Through The Fog
I was driving on a country road in some dense fog early one morning. But I still couldn’t see very far in front of me… But I continued on… Then seemingly out…
Preaching is for Real
Preaching is for real… People are going through stuff… Real Stuff… Hard Stuff… And they come…
Ensuring Relevance In Preaching
How do you ensure relevance in your preaching OK..first relevance doesn’t mean that you never preach about the ethical demands of the text. Some folks think that relevance means you only preach…