Sunday Comes Every Week: Daily Habits for the Busy Preacher

by Frank G. Honeycutt, Thomas G. Long (Foreword by)

Overview

Seasoned advice for pastors facing the weekly challenge of preparing sermons

For pastors, a new sermon comes every week. Conventional wisdom says that pastors need to sequester themselves to prepare their weekly sermon without distraction. But veteran preacher Frank Honeycutt suggests just the opposite: prepare your sermons as part of a daily, lived experience in the community.

Using the days of the week as a framework, Honeycutt describes practical and essential tasks leading up to the writing and delivery of the Sunday sermon—habits that will provide lasting spiritual nourishment for pastors who plan for a long career in parish ministry. With humor and candid acknowledgment of his own mistakes and doubts, Honeycutt reflects on the joys and hazards of ministry and explains how a faithful process of preaching shapes pastors for a lifetime of healthy ministry.

1. Monday: Listening
2. Tuesday: Hearing
3. Wednesday: Exegeting
4. Thursday: Naming
5. Reflecting: A Pastor Looks Back
6. Friday: Writing
7. Saturday: Rehearsing
8. Sunday: Offering

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467456708
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/11/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	327 KB

About the Author

Frank G. Honeycutt holds a DMin in preaching from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and has over thirty years of experience in parish ministry in the Virginia and South Carolina synods of the ELCA. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in periodicals including The Living Lutheran, Journal for Preachers, and the Christian Century.

Frank G. Honeycutt has over thirty years of experience as a Lutheran (ECLA) pastor. His writing has appeared in venues such as The Christian Century and Living Lutheran. He is the author of numerous books, including Sunday Comes Every Week, Miracles for Skeptics, and Genealogy Theology. 

Thomas G. Long is Bandy Professor of Preaching and coordinator of the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His other books include The Witness of Preaching and Accompany Them with Singing — The Christian Funeral.

Table of Contents

Foreword Thomas G. Long vii

Introduction 1

1 Monday: Listening 10

2 Tuesday: Hearing 21

3 Wednesday: Exegeting 41

4 Thursday: Naming 63

5 Reflecting: A Pastor Looks Back 87

6 Friday: Writing 104

7 Saturday: Rehearsing 127

8 Sunday: Offering 131

Epilogue 143

Notes 145

Bibliography 153