Eugene Lowry
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Homiletical Beat : Why All Sermons Are Narrative
$18.99Add to cartPromoting the idea of sermon as narrative, Eugene Lowry’s first book, The Homiletical Plot, became one of the most influential preaching books of the latter part of the 20th century. While the sermon as narrative has become conventional preaching wisdom, it is largely misunderstood. Sermons are, by definition, narratives and as such, they have plots. At the same time, the sermon is not a story. While similar in many ways, narratives and stories are distinct. Therefore, to think of narrative preaching as merely one of many homiletical styles is to misunderstand and reduce the nature of the sermon. The sermon is more than just an option for the preacher; rather, it is, by definition, a narrative because it happens in time, not in space. This changes everything because the sermon ceases to be something a preacher constructs, like a thesis or even a painting. Instead, it is more like a piece of music – something a preacher plays within intuitively, to a constant beat – time after time, week after week. In light of this revelation, what are new strategic aims for sermon preparation and delivery?
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Homiletical Plot : The Sermon As Narrative Art Form (Expanded)
$30.00Add to cartLowry argues that preachers should regard the sermon as a narrative art form, a sacred story of God’s dramatic encounter with humanity. He outlines five steps for preaching narrative sermons, even when dealing with non-narrative biblical texts. Because the plot of each sermon moves from a point of tension to a point of resolution, people willingly become involved in the sermon.
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Sermon : Dancing The Edge Of Mystery
$22.99Add to cartThis introductory-level textbook offers an overview of the sermon. The reader will learn of the revolution in homiletics of the past 25 years, and will be helped to understand the sermon in terms of the movement of time, place, shape, space, conflict, complication, and the “sudden shift” of the text.
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How To Preach A Parable
$23.99Add to cartIn this pratical and insightful guide, one of the nation’s most respected preachers shows how to use the structure of Jesus’ parables to preach highly effective sermons. During the past decade, NT scholars have dne fresh and exciting work on the style and function of Jesus’ stories. Now Eugene L. Lowry–in clear, step-by-step fashion–shows how he and other well-known preachers use and develop parables to create lively and interesting sermons.