Best Advice for Preaching

by John S. McClure

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800629977
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	02/02/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

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).