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Apologetics & homiletics
Theology
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Deep Preaching
Creating Sermons that Go Beyond the Superficial
J. Kent Edwards
J. Kent Edwards recalls a story that late pastor J. Vernon McGee told about
seeing children in South Africa playing a game of marbles in the dust with
real diamonds. The precious stones were being handled with no regard for their
true worth. Edwards fears the same thing happens today when preachers offer
scriptural truth to listeners without being completely overwhelmed by its
greatness themselves in the process. Deep Preaching is his call to “rethink”
preaching. Edwards helps preachers learn to preach the word in ways that
will powerfully change the lives of hearers. He contends that sermons “need
not settle comfortably on the lives of the listeners like dust on a coffee table.”
He encourages preachers to join him in casting off the lines that moor their
ministries to the status-quo and make every effort to steer their preaching out
of the “comfortable shallows.” He urges them to preach deep sermons rather
than superficial ones, moving “beyond the yawn-inspiring to the awe-inspiring,
from the trite to the transforming.”
J. Kent Edwards (D.Min., Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary) is professor of Preaching and Leadership
and director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Talbot School of Theology, the seminary of Biola University
in La Mirada, California. He also pastors at Woodland Hills Church in Woodland Hills, CA.
978-0-8054-4695-1 : : $19.99 : : Trade paper : : 208 pages
Book of the Year Award from
PreachingToday.com
AWARD
WINNER
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Faithful Preaching
Declaring Scripture with Responsibility, Passion,
and Authenticity
Tony Merida
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What is a preacher? What is preaching? Pastor Tony Merida asks these
foundational questions to arrive at this overview of his book, Faithful Preaching:
“Faithful preaching is the responsible, passionate, and authentic declaration
of the Christ-exalting Scriptures, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of
the Triune God. Expository preaching is the best approach for accurately
explaining and applying God’s Word, and for maintaining a God-centered focus
in preaching. It also offers wonderful spiritual benefits to both the preacher
and congregation. To be faithful expositors today, we must avoid the common
problems associated with expository preaching such as boredom, irrelevancy,
and Christless messages. Faithful preachers will usher the people through the
text passionately and authentically, pointing them to Christ.”
Tony Merida is the teaching pastor at Temple Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and assistant
professor of Preaching at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned his Master of Divinity,
Master of Theology, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
978-0-8054-4820-7 : : $18.99 : : Trade paper : : 256 pages
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