How to Get Your Sermon Heard

How to Get Your Sermon Heard
Author: William Hethcock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780981479545

How to Get Your Sermon Heard is an interdenominational textbook for all who preach shows how to prepare scripture-based sermons that will move people to to do God's work in today's world. In How to Get Your Sermon Heard, Hethcock demonstrates ways to interpret texts from the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John, the Old Testament, Psalms, and the Revelation to John the Divine, among others--all with clear explanations linked to sermons. Complete sermons also illustrate chapters on how to preach at marriages, at funerals, and on the parables. Hethcock shows how to spend less time preparing more effective sermons, preach sermons that make their point more clearly, and create sermons that will capture listeners' minds and hearts as they experience the Word of God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and God's love. William Hethcock was ordained an Episcopal priest after studying at General Theological Seminary in New York. He served congregations in Greensboro and Durham, NC, and Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. At the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, Professor Hethcock was director of field education and taught homiletics. After retiring from Sewanee, he taught homiletics at Virginia Theological Seminary.

Preaching to Be Heard

Preaching to Be Heard
Author: Lucas O'Neill
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2019-02-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683592379

"If a sermon is preached in a church and no one is listening, does it make a difference?" There are many expository preachers who forego dynamic delivery and many dynamic preachers who lose sight of faithfully communicating the biblical text. Too often preachers feel they have to choose one or the other. But dynamic delivery and faithful exposition are not mutually exclusive. In Preaching to Be Heard, Lucas O'Neill shows pastors that presenting engaging sermons that are biblically focused is not an impossibility. In fact, the key to commanding attention lies in the text itself. Rather than relying on tricks or gimmicks, his approach to sermon writing focuses on maintaining tension throughout while sticking close to the biblical text. Using practical examples and a step-by-step method, O'Neill shows pastors how relying on the inherent anticipation within Scripture can lead to sermons that are powerful--and heard.

Let It Go

Let It Go
Author: T.D. Jakes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1416547339

Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

Winning the War in Your Mind

Winning the War in Your Mind
Author: Craig Groeschel
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310362733

MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD! Are your thoughts out of control--just like your life? Do you long to break free from the spiral of destructive thinking? Let God's truth become your battle plan to win the war in your mind! We've all tried to think our way out of bad habits and unhealthy thought patterns, only to find ourselves stuck with an out-of-control mind and off-track daily life. Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel understands deeply this daily battle against self-doubt and negative thinking, and in this powerful new book he reveals the strategies he's discovered to change your mind and your life for the long-term. Drawing upon Scripture and the latest findings of brain science, Groeschel lays out practical strategies that will free you from the grip of harmful, destructive thinking and enable you to live the life of joy and peace that God intends you to live. Winning the War in Your Mind will help you: Learn how your brain works and see how to rewire it Identify the lies your enemy wants you to believe Recognize and short-circuit your mental triggers for destructive thinking See how prayer and praise will transform your mind Develop practices that allow God's thoughts to become your thoughts God has something better for your life than your old ways of thinking. It's time to change your mind so God can change your life.

Rewiring Your Preaching

Rewiring Your Preaching
Author: Richard H. Cox
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-11-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083086640X

Psychologist, physician and preacher Richard Cox calls on the best modern neuroscience to prove that a better understanding of the brain can transform your preaching. Arguing that the sermon is a highly charged cognitive event, Cox explains the role of brain stimuli in such crucial pastoral tasks as delivering comfort and provoking moral action.

Can We Trust the Gospels?

Can We Trust the Gospels?
Author: Peter J. Williams
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433552981

Is there evidence to believe the Gospels? The Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John—are four accounts of Jesus’s life and teachings while on earth. But should we accept them as historically accurate? What evidence is there that the recorded events actually happened? Presenting a case for the historical reliability of the Gospels, New Testament scholar Peter Williams examines evidence from non-Christian sources, assesses how accurately the four biblical accounts reflect the cultural context of their day, compares different accounts of the same events, and looks at how these texts were handed down throughout the centuries. Everyone from the skeptic to the scholar will find powerful arguments in favor of trusting the Gospels as trustworthy accounts of Jesus’s earthly life.

Expository Exultation

Expository Exultation
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2018-04-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433561166

“God has appointed preaching in worship as one great means of accomplishing his ultimate goal in the world.” —John Piper John Piper makes a compelling claim in these pages about the purpose of preaching: it is intended not merely as an explanation of the text but also as a means of awakening worship by being worship in and of itself. Christian preaching is a God-appointed miracle aiming to awaken the supernatural seeing, savoring, and showing of the glory of Christ. Distilling over forty years of experience in preaching and teaching, Piper shows preachers how and what to communicate from God’s Word, so that God’s purpose on earth will advance through Biblesaturated, Christ-exalting, God-centered preaching—in other words, expository exultation.

Writing and Personality

Writing and Personality
Author: John K. DiTiberio
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429924291

'We cannot separate the writer from the writing. Nor should we try. Both our writing process and our writing products need to carry our unique signature, a bit of our personality.' - From Writing and Personality How you write - what works for you and what makes sense to you - depends on who you are, your personality, your preferences, your style of thinking and feeling. If you're extraverted and grounded in your senses, your natural writing style will be far different from the person who tends to be introverted and intuitive. Not only that, how you learn to write will be different as well. Here's a book that taps into the natural strengths of your personality and helps you use those strengths in your writing. Whether you're a student, businessperson, or professional writer, this book will help you: engage your natural writing voice; adapt to styles that are less natural; overcome writer's block; and find the right words for communicating effectively, whatever your assignment.

Discerning the Voice of God

Discerning the Voice of God
Author: Priscilla Shirer
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1575679515

OVER 350,000 COPIES SOLD! Do you feel that the ability to hear God's voice is for other people and not for you? Is it only for people who lived in Biblical times? Not at all! The God who loved you enough to die for you loves you enough to talk to you. And wherever you are in your spiritual walk, God will find a way to speak to you in a way you will understand. Become acquainted with the Voice that has spoken from a fire and a cloud, with visible signs and an invisible Spirit, through a burning bush and burning hearts. Hear from some of the most well known Christians in history about how God speaks to them, and discover for yourself how you can discern the voice of God. One of Priscilla’s bestselling titles, Discerning the Voice of God is now completely revised with updated content and reflection questions. Each section contains insights that will aid you in your desire to hear Him speak. Discover the treasure of recognizing how God keeps in touch with his beloved people.