The prophetic voice is one that calls the people of God to cease going the wrong way and return to God. When the people of God are going the wrong way they usually have a mindset that they really are still living in faith, which is why the prophetic voice is resisted so belligerently. Cultures …
The substance of preaching does not address a vacuum, speaking information into an impartial void. The prophetic voice of preaching is a counter-narrative to an entrenched conviction that has embraced a false narrative as true, and any other narratives as threats. The body of the sermon is not simply a point of view. It is …
A sermon conclusion that gives the impression that engagement with the text has been completed and implies that all that remains is a series of steps which the preacher has discerned and provided doesn’t invite ongoing engagement with the text. A conclusion is not the end of the conversation with the text, it is the …
In Preaching Jeremiah Walter Brueggemann seeks to ground preaching in the context of Biblical communication. This is not so much stylistic, but rather a recognition that relying on literary artifice to build a bridge between speaker and hearers softens the reality that the proclamation of God’s kingdom is a “word from beyond”. …sermons do not …
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