Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Identify several challenges to biblical preaching

• Summarize the theological, historical, pragmatic, and personal reasons for preaching

• Describe the marks of a biblical sermon

• Discuss the differences between topical preaching and preaching through the Bible

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1:Why We Should Preach Biblical Narratives

• Why Preach Narrative Sermons?

• Narrative Sermons Reflect God’s Communication Preference

• Narrative Sermons Reach More People

• Narrative Sermons Help Adults Learn God’s Word

• Narrative Sermons Help Listeners to Remember God’s Word

• Narrative Sermons Help You Lead and Apply God’s Word to Listeners

• Culture Shift: How Our Changing World Touches Our Pulpits

• The Electronic Culture: The Triumph of Television

• Our Electronic Culture and Its Stories

• Challenges of Narrative Preaching

Unit 2:Understanding Biblical Narratives

• Preaching the Stories of Scripture: An Overview

• Elements of a Story: Conflict

• Elements of a Story: Experienced by People

• Elements of a Story: Revealed over Time and Ultimately Resolved

• Elements of a Story: Often with a Backstory

• Biblical Stories Are More than History

• Biblical Stories Have a Point

• Biblical Stories Are Great Literature

• Preaching Biblical Stories Is Often Frustrating but Very Rewarding

• The Anatomy of a Story

• Putting Flesh on the Bones

• The Big Idea

• The Story of the Bible: Introduction

• The Story of the Bible: Summer, Fall Begins, and Characters

• The Backstory of the Bible: Satan’s Fall

• The Backstory of the Bible: Satan’s Revenge

• The Story of the Bible: Fall Continues—Part One

• The Story of the Bible: Fall Continues—Part Two

• The Story of the Bible: Winter—Part One

• The Story of the Bible: Winter—Part Two

• The Story of the Bible: An Unexpected Twist

• The Story of the Bible: Spring and a Second Summer

• The Big Idea of the Bible

Unit 3:Exegeting Biblical Narratives

• Understand the Larger Context

• Examine the Scenes

• Determine Where the Story Begins and Ends

• Trust the Narrator

• Examine the Characters

• Discover the Setting

• Write the Exegetical Idea

• Write the Homiletical Idea and Double-Check Your Big Idea

• Practical Application of the Text

• Exegeting Mark 6:7–13 (Scene One)

• Exegeting Mark 6:14–29 (Scene Two)

• Exegeting Mark 6:30–44 (Scene Three)

• Exegeting Mark 6:7–44 (The Big Idea)

• Exegeting Luke 18:35–43 (A One-Scene Story)

• Exegeting Luke 19:1–10 (The Big Idea)

• Exegeting Jonah: Introduction

• Exegeting Jonah 1:1–5 (Scene One)

• Exegeting Jonah 1:6–16 (Scene Two)

• Exegeting Jonah 1:17–3:2 (Scene Three)

• Exegeting Jonah 3:3–4:3 (Scene Four)

• Exegeting Jonah 4:4–11 (The Big Idea)

• Exegeting Luke 8:40–49 (First Two of Three Scenes)

• Exegeting Luke 8:50–56 (Scene Three and the Big Idea)

• Exegeting the Same Stories in Different Gospels

• Exegeting Stories with Two Mono-Mythic Cycles

Unit 4:Preaching Biblical Narratives

• How the Holy Spirit Can Help Your Narrative Preaching

• What Is a Narrative Sermon?

• Story-Shaping Sermons—Part One: Choosing Similar Conflicts from Life

• Story-Shaping Sermons—Part Two: Build Identification between Protagonist and Listeners

• Story-Shaping Sermons—Part Three: The Protagonist’s Decision

• First-Person Sermons—Part One: Reverse Engineering

• First-Person Sermons—Part Two: Choosing the Principal Characters

• First-Person Sermons—Part Three: Avoiding Plot Errors

• First-Person Sermons—Part Four: Preach without a Manuscript

• First-Person Sermons—Part Five: Introducing the Sermon

• Other Types of Narrative Sermons

Details

• Title: CM210 Preaching Biblical Narrative

• Instructor: J. Kent Edwards

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

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

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 8