Preaching?: Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching

Preaching?: Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching

by Alec Motyer
Preaching?: Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching

Preaching?: Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching

by Alec Motyer

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Overview

Like many things in life, the skill of good preaching is 95% perspiration and 5% inspiration. Alec Motyer’s guide is based on a multitude of sermons over many years of preaching in many different situations, a recipe to help you know your subject and to pull the pieces together into a winning sermon. Preaching is a privilege: let Alec help you reach out and make the best of the gifts God has given you.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781911303
Publisher: Christian Focus Publications
Publication date: 07/20/2013
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dr Alec Motyer (1924–2016) was a well–known Bible expositor and from an early age had a love for studying God’s Word. He was principal of Trinity College, Bristol and wrote many widely appreciated commentaries and other books.

Table of Contents

1 Between You and Me 7

2 Work to be done: the Pursuit 9

3 The Heart of the Matter 15

4 Faithful Teachers 23

5 'This Came Out' 29

6 Getting to know you: Examination 37

7 Rightly Dividing: Analysis 49

8 Finding the Pole Star: Orientation 61

9 Gather Ye Rosebuds: Harvesting 77

10 The Window and the Cake: Presentation 89

11 So what? Application 101

12 Behind the Scenes: Spirituality 119

13 The Last Lap 131

14 The Tenderest Word of All 141

Appendix 1 A Thought a Day for Six Days on: Death and Heaven for the Christian 145

Appendix 2 A Thought a Day for Six Days on: Our Task of Sharing the Gospel 149

Appendix 3 A Thought a Day for Six Days on: The Glory of Jesus in His Life 153

Appendix 4 A Thought a Day for Six Days on: The Church as the Bride of Christ 157

Appendix 5 A Thought a Day for Six Days-on: The Church as the Temple of God 163

Appendix 6 The Story of Gideon in Seven Daily Portions 169

Appendix 7 Isaiah's Portrait of the Messiah 173

Appendix 8 Seven Daily Readings in Isaiah 177

Appendix 9 A Seven-Day-Reading Scheme on Malachi 181

Appendix 10 God Our Father: A Thought for Five Days 185

What People are Saying About This

Harry L. Reeder - Pastor of Preaching & Leadership

Given the content, readability and insights... this book is a "must" for preachers and for those who want to understand preaching and encourage preachers.

Dale Ralph Davis - Minister in Residence

Alec's succinct and stirring treatise on preaching makes me wish wholeheartedly that I could start all over again-in that blessed privilege of preaching, praying and pastoring.

D. A. Carson - Research Professor of New Testament

This primer on preaching, Preaching? Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching, is one of the best there is, displaying the work of a master who knows his subject so well he can make it look 'simpler' than it is, and therefore less daunting.

From the Publisher

This primer on preaching, Preaching? Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching, is one of the best there is, displaying the work of a master who knows his subject so well he can make it look 'simpler' than it is, and therefore less daunting. ~ D. A. Carson (Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois)

Given the content, readability and insights... this book is a "must" for preachers and for those who want to understand preaching and encourage preachers. ~ Harry L. Reeder (Pastor of Preaching & Leadership, Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama)

This refreshing guide, laced with excellent Biblical examples and astute observations from personal experience, will be a great read for preachers old and new, and I warmly commend it. ~ Jonathan Lamb (Keswick Ministries, CEO and minister-at-large)

Alec Motyer has had a profound, formative influence on my preaching. In this book he puts his decades of wisdom on expository preaching at the reader's fingertips. This is as practical and Biblically solid a book on preaching as you can find today. ~ Tim Keller (Senior Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City, New York)

Alec's succinct and stirring treatise on preaching makes me wish wholeheartedly that I could start all over again-in that blessed privilege of preaching, praying and pastoring. ~ Dale Ralph Davis (Minister in Residence, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina)

Jonathan Lamb - Keswick Ministries

This refreshing guide, laced with excellent Biblical examples and astute observations from personal experience, will be a great read for preachers old and new, and I warmly commend it.

Tim Keller - Senior Pastor

Alec Motyer has had a profound, formative influence on my preaching. In this book he puts his decades of wisdom on expository preaching at the reader's fingertips. This is as practical and Biblically solid a book on preaching as you can find today.

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