Description:
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 Adams
Ronald J. Allen
Arthur P. Boers
Charles Bugg
-Walter Burghardt
John R. Claypool
William Sloane Coffin
-Fred Craddock
Mitties de Champlain
Virgilio Elizondo
Lowell Erdahl
James H. Harris
April Larson
Thomas G. Long
Craig A. Loscalzo
Barbara Lundblad
John S. McClure
Robin Meyers
Henry H. Mitchell
David H. C. Read
Thomas E. Ridenhour
Barbara Brown Taylor
Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
Thomas H. Troeger
John Vannorsdall
William H. Willimon
J. Philip Wogaman
Brief description:
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).