A Preaching Workbook
This is a book for all preachers (of any denomination), be they ordained, readers, students preparing for a preaching ministry, or lay people called on to deliver a sermon from time to time.

In his introduction, David Day describes the ambivalence in churches about preaching. He goes on to help preachers construct and deliver addresses that draw the practice closer to the high theology we hold of the sermon as the 'word of God'. The author believes that the best and most effective preaching is biblical, and several chapters focus on how to draw our message authentically from scripture. He also gives plenty of practical help on the craft of preaching. And in doing so, he is courageous enough to expose some of his own sermons as examples of good or (occasionally) bad practice, as well as sermons from fifty or so preachers who are equally brave in offering their own efforts.

'David Day is a superb communicator. His style is economical, vivid, subtle and clear, and he uses those gifts to help others discover their own voice.'
Anvil

'This is perhaps the best book I have ever been asked to review. It is practical, packed with relevant exercises, clear, non-technical and often very funny.'
The Reader

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A Preaching Workbook
This is a book for all preachers (of any denomination), be they ordained, readers, students preparing for a preaching ministry, or lay people called on to deliver a sermon from time to time.

In his introduction, David Day describes the ambivalence in churches about preaching. He goes on to help preachers construct and deliver addresses that draw the practice closer to the high theology we hold of the sermon as the 'word of God'. The author believes that the best and most effective preaching is biblical, and several chapters focus on how to draw our message authentically from scripture. He also gives plenty of practical help on the craft of preaching. And in doing so, he is courageous enough to expose some of his own sermons as examples of good or (occasionally) bad practice, as well as sermons from fifty or so preachers who are equally brave in offering their own efforts.

'David Day is a superb communicator. His style is economical, vivid, subtle and clear, and he uses those gifts to help others discover their own voice.'
Anvil

'This is perhaps the best book I have ever been asked to review. It is practical, packed with relevant exercises, clear, non-technical and often very funny.'
The Reader

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A Preaching Workbook

A Preaching Workbook

by David Day
A Preaching Workbook

A Preaching Workbook

by David Day

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This is a book for all preachers (of any denomination), be they ordained, readers, students preparing for a preaching ministry, or lay people called on to deliver a sermon from time to time.

In his introduction, David Day describes the ambivalence in churches about preaching. He goes on to help preachers construct and deliver addresses that draw the practice closer to the high theology we hold of the sermon as the 'word of God'. The author believes that the best and most effective preaching is biblical, and several chapters focus on how to draw our message authentically from scripture. He also gives plenty of practical help on the craft of preaching. And in doing so, he is courageous enough to expose some of his own sermons as examples of good or (occasionally) bad practice, as well as sermons from fifty or so preachers who are equally brave in offering their own efforts.

'David Day is a superb communicator. His style is economical, vivid, subtle and clear, and he uses those gifts to help others discover their own voice.'
Anvil

'This is perhaps the best book I have ever been asked to review. It is practical, packed with relevant exercises, clear, non-technical and often very funny.'
The Reader


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780281057320
Publisher: SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
Publication date: 10/22/2004
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Formerly Principal of St John’s College and Cranmer Hall, Durham, David Day is the author of a number of books, including the complementary volume, Embodying the Word: A Preacher’s Guide, also published by SPCK.

Table of Contents

Part I Hearing the Word
1 The passage, the whole passage and nothing but the passage 13
2 Beyond the sacred page 22
Part II Discerning a Message
3 What's cooking? 35
4 Curbing a frisky theology 46
5 Is it good news? 55
Part III Finding a Voice
6 Learning from the experts 65
7 The shapely sermon 76
8 Faith, hope and clarity 88
9 The eggstain on the waistcoat 97
10 A funny thing happened to me ... 106
Part IV Respecting the Listeners
11 Six feet above contradiction? 117
12 The word-processor in the pew 127
13 Playing squash against a haystack 137
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