aBeLOG
Welcome to the aBeLOG, a series of (hopefully!) fortnightly posts on all matters homiletical. I intend to touch on whatever grabs my attention regarding preaching—issues contemporary and ancient, ideas hermeneutical and rhetorical, personalities conservative and liberal, publications antiquarian and avant-garde. Essentially, I’m going to follow my own homiletical olfactory instincts up rabbit trails and after red herrings. Comments are always invited and appreciated.
Genesis: Introduction
This is the first in a series of posts on each pericope of Genesis. This will essentially be a distillation of what is in my commentary (Genesis: A Theological Commentary for Preachers; more on the book, and a free chapter download, here). Of course, the book contains far more detail than can be reproduced
Reg Grant: How I Preach
Reg Grant: And this is How I Preach …
[I’m delighted to showcase my DTS colleague Reg Grant on How I Preach. He is a renaissance man with wide and exotic interests in homiletics, aesthetics, drama, film, literary theory …. So he is a preacher, a media buff, actor, director, and author. And you should see him play the congas! A fun guy to be around, so … y’all have fun!]
Reg Grant
Chairman
Genesis is coming ….
We read the Bible to bring divine guidelines for life from Scripture to bear on our lives so that we, the people of God, may be aligned to the will of God, for the glory of God.
But how does this work when you take a “bite-sized” chunk of text—a “pericope”—as you might do in your devotional study, or your pastor might do in the Sunday sermon? What in this slice of Scripture is to be carried over into the life of the Christian?
I have made the claim elsewhere
Hershael York: How I Preach
Hershael York: And this is How I Preach …
[I’m happy to present Hershael on How I Preach. A fellow-member of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, he holds up the fort of preaching at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. As you will see, he’s one cool guy. I’ve enjoyed being around him, most recently teaching a PhD class at Southern last month. Enjoy his wisdom!]
Hershael W. York
Victor and
Mark 15:40−16:8
Disciples restored by God’s grace continue to be faithful to Jesus, ready to undertake another round of the journey of discipleship with Jesus.
“But go, tell His disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He told you.’”
And going out, they [the women] fled from the tomb, for trembling and terror had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Mark 16:7–8
This final portion of Mark functions
Walt Kaiser: How I Preach
Walt Kaiser: And this is How I Preach …
[Walt is a giant—in more ways than one! Past President of Gordon-Conwell, he has been involved in every stripe of evangelical scholarship, dispatching his remarks, scripting his papers, responding to questioners, with panache and pizzazz, energy and élan, zest and wit! For the last forty years! I have had the privilege to share podiums with him at meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. For all his acumen and erudition,
Interview on Genesis: A Theological Commentary for Preachers
Here’s a recent interview of me conducted by my friend and once-Seminary-classmate, Dr. Charles Savelle. It ran the other day on his informative blog that deals with all matters related to Bible exposition. I’ve borrowed it off his website; you can find the interview here.]
CS: How did Genesis: A Theological Commentary for Preachers come about?
AK: Well, I’m on a crusade! I have been engaged in laying out a somewhat new hermeneutic for approaching
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.