The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching

Haddon Robinson (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary, MA, Southern Methodist University, PhD, University of Illinois) is the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and he is widely regarded as an expert in the area of preaching. Craig Brian Larson is chief editor for Christianity Today's PreachingToday.com, an online journal and illustration service. He also pastors a church in Chicago, Illinois. His books include Contemporary Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, and Writers; Preaching That Connects; and The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching. He and his family live in the Chicago suburbs.

How to Use This Book…15
Contributors...17
Acknowledgments...20
Part 1: The High Call of Preaching
How can I be faithful to what God intends
preaching to be and do?
1. Convictions of Biblical Preaching…23
Haddon Robinson
2. A Definition of Biblical Preaching...24
John Stott
3. A Weekly Dose of Compressed Dignity…29
Craig Brian Larson
4. Overfed, Underchallenged...31
Jay Kesler
5. Theology of Powerful Preaching…33
Jay E.Adams
6. Preaching That Raises Our Sights...36
Crawford Loritts
7. Leading and Feeding...37
Jack Hayford
8. John 3:16 in the Key of C...41
Jeffrey Arthurs
9. Growing in Your Preaching…44
Bill Hybels
10. Spiritual Formation through Preaching…48
Robertson McQuilkin
11. Preaching Life into the Church...53
Jeffrey Arthurs
12. My Theory of Homiletics…58
Haddon Robinson
13. Staying on the Line…59
David Helm
14. History of Preaching...64
Michael Quicke
Part 2: The Spiritual Life of the Preacher
How should I attend to my soul so that I am
spiritually prepared to preach?
15. A Cup Running Over...71
Dallas Willard
16. The Patented Preacher…74
Warren W.Wiersbe
17. I Prayed for My Preaching...79
Joe McKeever
18. How Does Unction Function?...81
Lee Eclov
19. Squeaky Clean…85
Kenton C. Anderson
20. Required Reading...89
Haddon Robinson
21. Rightly Dividing the Preaching Load...90
Larry W. Osborne
22. Preaching through Personal Pain…95
Daniel T. Hans
23. A Prophet among You…99
Maxie Dunnam
24. Burning Clean Fuel...103
Scott Wenig
Contents
25. Backdraft Preaching...105
Mark Buchanan
26. Why I Pace Before I Preach...108
Walter Wangerin Jr.
27. Preaching to Convulse the Demons…109
Craig Barnes
28. Holy Expectation...112
Haddon Robinson
Part 3: Considering Hearers
How should my approach change depending
on who is listening?
29. Preaching to Everyone in Particular...115
Haddon Robinson
30. The Power of Simplicity…121
Chuck Smith
31. View from the Pew…124
John Koessler
32. Preaching to Ordinary People...126
Lewis Smedes
33. Why Serious Preachers Use Humor...130
John Beukema
34. Connect Hearers through Dialogue...141
Jeffrey Arthurs
35. Self-Disclosure That Glorifies Christ…143
Joe Stowell
36. How to Be Heard...145
Fred Smith
37. Opening the Closed American Mind…149
Ed Dobson
38. Turning an Audience into the Church...154
Will Willimon
39. Preaching to Change the Heart…159
Alistair Begg
40. Preaching Truth, Justice, and the American Way...163
Rick McKinniss
41. Preaching Morality in an Amoral Age...166
Timothy Keller
42. Cross-Cultural Preaching...171
Rick Richardson
43. Connecting with Postmoderns...174
Robertson McQuilkin
44. Preaching amid Pluralism...177
Timothy Keller
45. Connecting with Non-Christians...179
John Koessler
46. How to Translate Male Sermons to Women…181
Alice Mathews
47. He Said, She Heard...184
Jeffrey Arthurs
48. Connecting with Men...188
Bill Giovannetti
49. Creating a Singles-Friendly Sermon…191
Susan Maycinik Nikaido
50. Preaching to Preschoolers…193
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
51. Hispanic-American Preaching...195
Noel Castellanos, Jesse Miranda, Alfredo Ramos
52. African-American Preaching…197
Rodney L.Cooper
53. Asian-American Preaching…200
Matthew D. Kim
54. Work Wins?...204
Lee Eclov
55. One Sermon, Two Messages…207
Wayne Brouwer
56. The Playful Preacher…210
Richard P. Hansen
57. What Authority Do We Have Anymore?...213
Haddon Robinson
Part 4: Interpretation and Application
How do I grasp the correct meaning of
Scripture and show its relevance to my unique
hearers?
58. Why the Sermon?...217
Ben Patterson
59. Getting the Gold from the Text…221
John Koessler
60. Faithful First…226
David Jackman
61. God’s Letter of Intent…230
Greg R. Scharf
62. Five Bird-dogging Questions for Biblical Exposition…234
Earl Palmer
63. The Rules of the Game…237
David L. Allen
64. Why All the Best Preachers Are Theological...241
John Koessler
65. Letting the Listeners Make the Discoveries…247
Earl Palmer
66. Conviction and Compassion…250
S. Bowen Matthews
67. The Inadequacy of “Yes”
Theology...254
Ben Patterson
68. What Gre