Expository Preaching With Word Pictures
Ebook
This guide to the art of poignant illustrations will make your preaching come alive. Jack Hughes shares wisdom from the Puritan master of illustrations, Thomas Watson, to help you share your passion - and your points - from the pulpit.
Top Highlights
“Our working definition of a word picture will be any word, phrase, story, analogy, illustration, metaphor, figure of speech, trope, allegory, graphic quotation, historical reference, cross-reference, or comparison used to help the listener, see, imagine, experience, sense, understand, remember and/or relate to abstract facts.” (source)
“have peace, make war with sin. Sin is the Achan that troubles us, the Trojan horse. ‘When Joram saw Jehu” (source)
“one word long. When he preached, he chose to use concrete terms, nouns instead of adjectives” (source)
“A minister must be] a plain preacher, suiting his matter and style to the capacity of his audience (1 Cor. 14:19). Some ministers, like eagles, love to soar aloft in abstruse metaphysical notions, thinking they are most admired when they are least understood. They who preach in the clouds, instead of hitting their people’s conscience, shoot over their heads.” (source)
“By example, the expository preacher teaches a congregation how to study their Bibles. Every sermon is an example of ‘handling accurately the word of truth’ (2 Tim. 2:15).” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Expository Preaching With Word Pictures
- Author: Hughes, Jack
- Publisher: Christian Focus
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781781913406