Preaching and Sermon Resources

Collaboration is one of the best ways to make a difference when leading a congregation. Now John S. McClure shows how collaborative preaching is th...

Paul Wilson’s The Practice of Preaching has introduced a generation of students not only to the “how” of preaching, but also to the“why.” In this t...

Using the Apostles’ Creed as the “primary text” this book  explores what we believe as Christians and how those beliefs are relevant today.  The au...

What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic rende...

In The Hum: Call and Response in African Preaching , Evans E. Crawford, with Thomas H. Troeger, relates his analysis of African American folk preac...

Describes what it means to be anointed with the Spirit so that one can preach "to raise the dead." In  The Holy Spirit and Preaching , James A. For...

In this volume James Earl Massey explores both the sense of burden and the sense of joy that accompanies the preaching task. He gives attention to ...

Many resources have been written to offer assistance in exploring and understanding the lectionary texts for the purpose of preaching. However, few...

A working pastor is always looking for fresh preaching perspectives. This hands-on resource from the author of a long-standing column in the journa...

The reading of Scripture holds a central place in Christian worship. Every week the Word of God becomes flesh again as the words of the biblical te...

"For years I have had two growing convictions: first, that a person learns to preach, insofar as anyone ever learns, by preaching continuously in a...

In this important book, Webb makes two central claims. First, that effective preaching without a manuscript is not a matter of talent as much as it...

Helpful and insightful strategies for preaching from the writings of Paul. Few biblical figures are more compelling to preachers than the apostle P...

The essential tools for faithfully and authentically proclaiming the word in the small-membership church   Step into the pulpit in a small membersh...

Careful biblical interpretation; insights into contemporary life; polished delivery; humorous anecdotes; these are the building blocks of preaching...

A theological guide to biblical preaching from prophetic texts,  Preaching from the Prophets  invites preachers to look with imagination at the pos...

"What's goin' down? I know you don't expect a seventy-five year old man to talk all that talk. . . " A strong and much needed book addressing blac...

Preaching: it sounds like such a easy thing to do. All you have to do is step into the pulpit and talk for 20 minutes, right? Anyone who’s ever ste...

Whether they like it or not, actors and preachers have a great deal in common. Many churchgoers see the truth in the old saying that links preacher...

Features ready-to-use lectionary-based worship and preaching resources for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Part of the "Just in Time" series, this book ...

A revision of a standard resource for classes and seminary courses in Christian education. A revised edition of the best-selling  Teaching Teachers...

Troeger shares the secrets of capturing the imaginative spirit through exploration of the creative use of sight, sound, touch, and taste that leads...

Step-by-step guidance for preachers who want people to listen when they preach about parables. In this practical and insightful guide, one of the n...

This book is designed to help preachers find and use the riches of the Psalms for preaching. The authors address the perception that the Psalms oft...

Throughout the modern period, history has been the dominant lens through which preachers have viewed the biblical text. The historical-critical met...

The standard textbook on the art and craft of preaching, with a new foreword by Thomas G. Long A standard textbook on the art and craft of preachin...

Everyone understands human pain. But many Christians have difficulty comprehending God's pain, especially God's pain in the death of Christ. Is it ...

Adapted from Albert Outler's 4-volume text The Works of John Wesley, this anthology of 50 of Wesley's finest sermons are presented in an affordable...

Providing fundamental homiletical principles, this classic book gives readers all the tools they need to prepare a meaningful sermon. "Sermon desi...

This guide to contemporary preaching focuses on exciting and innovative ideas that have recently emerged. Wilson demonstrates with clarity and deta...

One of today’s greatest preacher-theologians engages one of the twentieth century's greatest teacher-theologians on the meaning of preaching. Reade...

For most people, rhetoric is a dubious term at best. Whenever they see the word, they expect it to be preceded by something like “empty” or “mere.”...

Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors...

In short, anecdotal chapters, the author explains how to diagnose a crisis (public, congregational, and personal) and offers six homiletical strate...

What accounts for the spiritual power and vitality of Black preaching? What are the distinctive contributions of Black preaching to the life of The...

Preaching is in crisis. Why? Because the traditional, conceptual approach no longer works, says Richard L. Eslinger. It fails to capture the int...

They are the lifeblood of preaching, the sparks that allow the sermon to catch fire in the imaginations of the congregation. Without them the best ...

In A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability, Kathy Black offers a unique and effective approach for preaching about disabilities. By going to ...

Preaching that changes lives must have application for its listeners. Murray Capill equips preachers to explore the living application of any text,...

Spurgeon's magazine, The Sword and the Trowel, provided the material for various collections of his addresses and writings compiled after his death...

A companion volume to The Face of Jesus Christ, this new selection of sermons by Archibald G. Brown concentrate on the Bible’s teaching about God a...

Whitefield was not only the greatest preacher and orator of the eighteenth century, he was also one of its most saintly characters, if not the sain...