Preaching to Be Heard

Preaching to Be Heard"If a sermon is preached in a church and no one is listening, does it make a difference?" There are many expository preachers who forego dynamic delivery and many dynamic preachers who lose sight of faithfully communicating the biblical text. Too often preachers feel they have to choose one or the other. But dynamic delivery and faithful exposition are not mutually exclusive. In Preaching to Be Heard, Lucas O'Neill shows pastors that presenting

Each chapter contains an outline

Jesus destroys forces of death and impurity while upholding the Jewish law

but does it really matter

Julie Faith Parker helps readers engage biblical texts with both mind and heart--to learn the Bible's stories

Inman shows that wonder is the distinctively human posture that drives and sustains the examined life and makes a compelling case that philosophy is valuable

Each chapter ends with discussion questions and a sample sermon

Joseph Minich argues that a felt absence of God

In this detailed commentary on 1 Kings

and Theo-Logic--revolves

and libraries

- Sayings in the Apostolic Fathers

and the overall argument of the book