Robinson and Larson the Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching Chapters
Today and tomorrow I'1000 reviewing 2 books on preaching. Tomorrow I'll look at Preaching Re-Imagined past Doug Pagitt 
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A review of Haddon Robinson and Craig Brian Larson (eds.), The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching: A Comprehensive Resource for Today's Communicators , Zondervan, 2005. 
I was going to telephone call this book a 'treasure trove' on preaching and then I noticed that's exactly how it's described in the opening line of blurb. Ah well. Information technology is a treasure trove.
The Fine art and Arts and crafts of Biblical Preaching is a collection of over 200 articles from Leadership journal and PreachingToday.com supplemented by articles written specially for the volume. I was a fleck sceptical that this might mean some ephemeral content, merely non so. Instead it means that, despite the book's 700 plus pages, all the content is tightly written and to the point. Information technology also ways nosotros're treated to a veritable who'south who of evangelical preaching including Jay Adams, Alistair Begg, Rob Bong, Stuart Briscoe, Don Carson, Tim Keller, Gordon MacDonald, John Ortberg, Ben Patterson, John Piper, Haddon Robinson, Rick Warren, Warren Wiersbe and Dallas Willard. The authors are by and large north American, but there are contributions from John Stott, Dick Lucas and David Jackman. At that place'due south also a CD with sermon extracts linked to specific articles in the book and then you can hear examples of principles taught in the text.
I started listing chapters I especially wanted to highlight, only after listing the first 4 capacity in a row I gave upwardly
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ane. The range of contributors encompasses a range of styles. Nosotros go from stiff upper lip English Anglicanism to full-blooded passionate African Americans. The danger of a unmarried author volume on preaching is that nosotros are presented with ane model. But, equally the nineteenth preacher Phillips Brooks famously said, preaching is truth through personality (cited on folio 74). Hither is a book that reflects biblical principles just which celebrates a multifariousness of styles.
2. There is a mutual thread of Christ-centred, gospel-driven, grace-filled preaching. I was worried that some articles might reflect the common pragmatic approach to preaching that tends towards moralism or dispensing advice. But everywhere you turn the gospel is at the eye. As yous might expect, Tim Keller's affiliate on 'preaching morality in an amoral age' a fine example of this (chapter 41).
3. Despite the diverseness of contributors, there is a big emphasis on applying the Bible to life with both sides of that process treated seriously. We preach the Bible – not human wisdom or advice or amusement. Only nosotros besides preach it to life and call for a response.
iv. At that place are articles on the topics you would expect, ofttimes several articles: confidence in God's word, intepreting a passage, explaining God's discussion clearly, knowing your congregation, applying the truth, calling for a response. But there are also articles on topics I might not take idea to include: creating a preaching team, preaching through personal pain, using self-disclosure, preaching into a crisis and so on.
5. Warren Wiersbe talks about what he calls 'the myth of "the great sermon"' (76). This is the notion that we should aim to preach the sermon on this passage. His signal is that, rather than preaching the greatest sermon of all fourth dimension, nosotros should preach the sermon needed for this fourth dimension and this people. And also the sermon that flows from your personality, not that of your preaching heroes.
At that place's too much to read from cover to cover. Just information technology'southward a peachy book to dip in and out of or to turn to with a particular issue in listen. Subject, author and Scripture indexes plus the chapter titles give y'all various routes by which yous tin navigate through the book. A great place to start would exist to read all the contributions of Haddon Robinson.
Here'southward a summary of the contents …
Part one: The Loftier Call of Preaching:
How can I exist faithful to what God intends preaching to exist and practice?
Function two: The Spiritual Life of the Preacher:
How should I attend to my soul so that I am spiritually prepared to preach?
Part 3: Because Hearers:
How should my approach modify depending on who is listening?
Function 4: Estimation and Awarding:
How practise I grasp the correct pregnant of Scripture and show its relevance to my unique hearers?
Office v: Structure:
How do I generate, organize, and support ideas in a style that is articulate?
Role half-dozen: Style:
How can I employ my personal strengths and various message types to their full biblical potential?
Office vii: Stories and Illustrations:
How do I observe examples that are illuminating, credible, and compelling?
Part 8: Grooming:
How should I invest my limited study fourth dimension then that I am fix to preach?
Part 9: Commitment:
How do I speak in a way that arrests hearers?
Part 10: Special Topics:
How do I speak on holidays and almost tough topics in a mode that is fresh and trustworthy?
Office xi: Evaluation:
How do I get the constructive feedback I need to go on growing?
Tomorrow I mail service a review of a book that questions the function of sermons – Preaching Re-Imagined by Doug Pagitt.
Source: https://timchester.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/thursday-review-almost-everyone-on-the-art-and-craft-of-biblical-preaching/