Best Advice for Preaching - Softcover

John S. McClure

 
9780800629977: Best Advice for Preaching

Synopsis

A bright new resource for the working preacher, Best Advice for Preaching garners the preaching wisdom of America's most outstanding preachers and homileticians.A collaborative effort of twenty-seven seasoned preachers, men and women from a variety of religious traditions and ethnic backgrounds, this indispensable guidebook is designed to improve all phases of the practice of preaching. The authors freely share their experiences and wisdom on a host of topics such as the initial call to preach, discipline, study patterns, conveying a message, using the lectionary, coordinating with the church year and other calendars, preaching sermon series, illustrating sermons, keeping notes and files, how to organize material, polishing the sermon, delivery, coordinating worship, feedback, and assembling a good preacher's library. Participants in this project include:Joanna AdamsRonald J. AllenArthur P. BoersCharles Bugg-Walter BurghardtJohn R. ClaypoolWilliam Sloane Coffin-Fred CraddockMitties de ChamplainVirgilio ElizondoLowell ErdahlJames H. HarrisApril LarsonThomas G. LongCraig A. LoscalzoBarbara LundbladJohn S. McClureRobin MeyersHenry H. MitchellDavid H. C. ReadThomas E. RidenhourBarbara Brown TaylorLeonora Tubbs TisdaleThomas H. TroegerJohn VannorsdallWilliam H. WillimonJ. Philip Wogaman

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About the Author

John S. McClure is the Charles G. Finney Professor of Homiletics at The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University. He is the editor of Best Advice for Preaching (Fortress Press, 1998).

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