Product Description: In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for preaching in the Spirit, acclaimed homiletician Luke Powery asserts that death is the context for all preaching...read more

Product Description: Those who long for a refreshing touch of prophetic preaching will have their spirits filled by the penetrating words in Preach! Undoubtedly America s most dynamic father and son preachers, Otis Moss, Jr. and Otis Moss III, share their intuitive words of hope, insight, and inspiration in their first ever book of sermons...read more

Product Description: What accounts for the spiritual power and vitality of Black preaching? What are the distinctive contributions of Black preaching to the life of The United Methodist Church? How must Black preaching evolve if it is to rise to the new challenges facing the UMC?   Fifteen distinguished preachers from across the connection answer these and other questions in this important and illuminating volume...read more

Resources for preachers steadily appear, called forth by the perennial need of working pastors for helpful and inspirational materials backed by tested experience, reverent scholarship, and creative insights. The essays in this book are the work of an experienced practitioner-scholar in the field of preaching. The chapters focus on the preaching ministry of Gardner Calvin Taylor. They are offered, with affection and esteem, by colleagues, students, and friends, fellow preachers all, whose owe much to the life and labors of Gardner C. Taylor. Considered by many as the greatest living American preacher, Gardner C. Taylor has often reminded other preachers about the need for divine help in fulfilling the call: 'All in all, a summons to the ministry is no light calling. The work of communicating the gospel requires us to be more than we are to exceed who we are.' This volume will lead readers to the realization of the need for grace and a sufficiency only found in God.

Product Description: In this companion and sequel to the best-selling Power in the Pulpit (2002), which has sold over 11,000 copies, more of America's best-known and most influential African American preachers describe how they go about preparing their sermons...read more

Product Description: L. Susan Bond reveals the full range and diversity of African American preaching in this exploration of African American homiletical theories. Portraying the many approaches that are empowering preaching in African American churches today, Bond shows how different theological perspectives produce different methods of sermon preparation and delivery, different strategies for selecting illustrative material, and even different ways of beginning and ending sermons...read more

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Product Description: Here is a book that will impact the course of preaching in the twenty-first century. Through the lens of African American preaching, Frank Thomas sheds light on what "good" preaching is and what methods can be employed to achieve it...read more

Product Description: This compelling sermons collection explores the art and uniqueness of African-American preaching. Readers will discover the ritual drama and the processes, form and substance of black storytelling that are pivotal elements coloring African-American culture...read more

Product Description: In The Hum: Call and Response in African Preaching, Evans E. Crawford, with Thomas H. Troeger, relates his analysis of African American folk preaching by relying upon an indigenous scheme for evaluation.  The call/response tension in black preaching (derived from a West African tradition) is what drives the musicality of speech in black churches...read more

Product Description: The original, unique type of black preaching in American existed during slavery. Although it has undergone changes, some of the original characteristics and manifestations are to be found, in varying degrees, today. Pipes explores the practices of individual preachers, including their training and preparation for particular sermons, and the ritual indigenous to black preaching in the form of structural intonations, rhythmic syntax, metrical units, and bodily motions...read more