Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Formulate the main proposition for any expository sermon

• Recognize the difference between an exegetical outline and a sermon outline

• Expand on an expository sermon’s proposition with main points and subpoints

• Distinguish between expository, textual, and topical sermon types

• Incorporate illustrations that empower hearers’ learning processes

• Understand the components of good sermon application

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Word and Witness

• Power of God in His Word: Introduction

• Power of God: Inherent in His Word

• Power of God: Manifested in the Logos

• Power of the Word: Applied in Expository Preaching

• Creating a Passage List for “Word of God”

• Effectiveness of the Word: Promoted by Testimony

• Path of the Gospel and Path of the Listener

• Ethos Implications

• Performing a Greek Lemma Word Study

Unit 2: The Big Idea

• Sermonic Unity: The Need for It

• Sermonic Unity: Its Nature

• Sermonic Unity: Identifying a Theme or Subtheme

• Sermonic Unity: Stating Its Proposition

• Purpose: Introducing the Fallen Condition Focus

• Purpose: Identifying the Fallen Condition Focus and Its Implications

• Purpose: Explaining the Fallen Condition Focus

• Application: Its Necessity

• Application: Consequences of Nonapplication

Unit 3: Text Selection and Interpretation

• Study Tools

• Building Digital Concordances

• Selecting a Text: Rules

• Selecting a Text: Cautions

• Investigating Textual Differences

• Selecting a Text: Conditions

• Interpreting a Text: Standards

• Interpreting a Text: Understanding the Language

• Interpreting a Text: Genre, Text Features, and Context

• Examining Specific Genres

• Selecting a Text: Conclusions

Unit 4: The Road from Text to Sermon

• Introduction to Moving from Text to Sermon

• 1. What Does the Text Mean?

• Studying Parallel Accounts

• 2. How Do I Know What the Text Means?

• Discovering Greek Grammatical Constructions

• 3. What Concerns Caused the Text to Be Written? (Part 1)

• 3. What Concerns Caused the Text to Be Written? (Part 2)

• 4. What Do We Share in Common with the Author and Audience?

• 5. How Should We Respond to the Truths of the Text?

• 6. Communicating the Content and Application (Part 1)

• 6. Communicating the Content and Application (Part 2)

Unit 5: Outlining and Arrangement

• Introduction to Outlining and Arrangement

• Purposes of an Outline

• Qualities of Good Homiletical Outlines

• Types of Homiletical Outlines

• Building Logical and Sequential Outlines

• Contents of Good Homiletical Outlines

• Developmental Principles for Homiletical Outlines

• Pulpit Outlines: Consistent Visual Markers and Cautions

Unit 6: Proposition and Main Points

• What Is a Proposition?

• Marks of a Good Proposition

• Marks of Good “Formal” Main Points

• Marks of Good “Conversational” Proposition and Main Points

• Propositions and Main Points: Some Helpful Hints

• Propositions and Main Points: Harmonizing Them

• Propositions and Main Points: More Helpful Hints

Unit 7: Sermon Divisions and Development

• Guidelines for Main Point Divisions

• Guidelines for Subpoint Divisions (Part 1)

• Guidelines for Subpoint Divisions (Part 2)

• Three Basic Types of Subpoints

• Standard Progression of Explanation within a Main Point

Unit 8: Classification of Messages

• Classifications: Introduction

• Topical Sermons

• Building a Topical Sermon

• Textual Sermons

• Expository Sermons: Features and Advantages

• Building an Expositional Sermon

• Expository Sermons: Potential Problems

Unit 9: Exposition: Components and Proportions

• Exposition: Introduction

• Exposition: Three Essential Elements

• Exposition and Illustrative Material

• Collecting Media Illustrations

• Application: Instructional and Situational Specificity

• Application: Motivation and Enablement

• The Shape of Exposition

• Exposition: Summary

Unit 10: Illustrations That Empower Exposition

• Illustrations: Introduction

• Illustrations: Their Power

• Illustration: Wrong Reasons for Doing It

• Illustration: Right Reasons for Doing It

• Illustrations: Providing Vicarious Learning Experiences

• Illustrations: Isolating and Associating

• Illustrations: Narrating

• Illustrations: Introducing Them

• Illustrations: Using Concreteness and Detail

• Illustrations: Relating and Applying to Your Point

• Illustrations: Expositional Rain (Part 1)

• Illustrations: Expositional Rain (Part 2)

• Illustrations: Sources

• Illustrations: A Balanced View

• Illustrations: Cautions (Part 1)

• Illustrations: Cautions (Part 2)

Unit 11: Application

• Application: Essential to Full Exposition

• Finding Points of Application

• What Is Application?

• Application: Giving Reason, Focus, and Clarity to Exposition

• Application: Required in Scripture

• Components of Application: What?

• Components of Application: Where?

• Components of Application: Why? and How?

• What Makes Application Difficult?

Unit 12: Overcoming the Application Breaking Point

• Disarming Hostility

• Making Sensible Proposals and Fitting the Tone to the Task

• Providing Sufficient Guidance for Making Decisions

• Other Recommendations

• Application: Cautions and Attitude

• Proper Attitudes for Making Applications

Unit 13: Sermon Introductions

• Sermon Introductions: An Example

• Sermon Introductions: Their Purpose

• Sermon Introductions: Opening Words and Opening Moments

• Sermon Introductions: Types (Part 1)

• Sermon Introductions: Types (Part 2)

• Marks of Poor Sermon Introductions

• Marks of Good Sermon Introductions

• Scripture Introductions: Their Separate Purpose

• The Introduction Chain

Unit 14: Sermon Conclusions

• Guiding Principles for Conclusions

• Components of Conclusions

• Effective Conclusions: Marks and Cautions

• Cautions and Hints for Effective Conclusions

Conclusion

• Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Details

• Title: CM151 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons I: Foundations and Structures

• Instructor: Bryan Chapell

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 15