Plain Truth for Plain People
Sermons for the Christian Year from the Wesleyan Tradition
- 286 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Having studied preaching at a doctoral level and practiced the craft for more than thirty years, Brad Estep offers fifty biblically grounded, theologically informed, and congregationally contextualized sermons centered around the different seasons of the Christian year. In addition to the sermon itself, Estep provides additional analysis that revolves around the homiletical structure, reasons for effectiveness, and usage of illustrative material. This work is designed for preachers who are interested and committed to the craft of preaching. Intended for reflective practitioners, Plain Truth for Plain People helps to reveal how and why sermons are crafted in the way that they are. Because of that, this book is also of interest to parishioners in the pews. At the top of the list of desirable skills in a pastor is preaching. This work helps provide examples of what that looks like--or more accurately, what that sounds like.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section 1: Sermons for Advent and Christmas Eve
- Section 2: Sermons for Christmas, Epiphany, and the Non-Festival Time Before Lent
- Section 3: Sermons for Lent and Good Friday
- Section 4: Sermons for Easter Sunday, the Easter Season, and Pentecost
- Section 5: Sermons for Post-Pentecost Non-Festival Time Before Advent
- Bibliography