This complete guide to expository preaching teaches the basics of preparation, organization, and delivery—the trademarks of great preaching. With the help of charts and creative learning exercises, Chapell shows how expository preaching can reveal the redemptive aims of Scripture and offers a comprehensive approach to the theory and practice of preaching. He also provides help for special preaching situations.
The second edition contains updates and clarifications, allowing this classic to continue to serve the needs of budding preachers. Numerous appendixes address many practical issues.
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Reviewed by Darryl Strong (Lincolnshire, IL), October 24, 2009
This is a good practical and theological book to help preachers understand expository preaching: the focus on God’s grace, the person and work of Christ, being organized and supportive of the proposition, principles and biblical truths, the critical link between the messenger and the message in terms of character. The book contains study questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, sample sermons and a sample sermon evaluation as well as good study resources. Carefully read and digest!
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Dave Cook (Louisville, KY), June 21, 2009
I read about a dozen books while doing an independent study on preaching, and this was the best. If you can only read one, read this one. If you can read two, read this one and Heisler's "Spirit-Led Preaching." This book starts with a very biblical and wise approach to the big-picture of preaching and then fleshes it out practically with wise and biblical advice.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Timothy Johnson (Lakeveiw, OH), September 04, 2008
This is THE best book on sermon preparation I have ever read. It is practical and full of down to earth language that genuinely helps the small church pastor to prepare sermons that are relevant and biblical. Every pastor young or old should read this book to help them preach messages that really connect and are exegetically sound and true to the Bible.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by RM (Australia), August 21, 2008
Perhaps the best book I have read on preaching so far, this text combines the 'how to' of preparing traditional expository sermons with a theology of preaching God's redemptive word to God's broken people. That theology (the FCF) is an important idea not only for preaching but hermeneutics as well.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Gary May (Desoto, Texas), July 14, 2008
This book goes a step more on preaching and that is grabbing from the text what the text had to instruct us from our fallen condition to being more the image of Christ. Annointed book for expositors of the Word of God.
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