Mobile Ed: Bryan Chapell Preaching Bundle (3 courses)

by Bryan Chapell; Logos Mobile Education

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2015–2020

Overview

“An expository sermon seeks to say what God says. We identify what is in the text, we explain its meaning, and then we apply it to the lives of God’s people.”

In this updated 3 course bundle on expositional preaching, Dr. Bryan Chapell teaches you how to prepare and deliver sermons that are grounded in the biblical text. He shows you how to be faithful to the text and points out things that can get in the way. He also emphasizes the importance of sermon application, and how to communicate God’s truth in a way that brings hope and stirs God’s people to action.

With decades of experience as a seminary professor and president, pastor, and preaching coach, Dr. Chapell is one of the most engaging instructors you will ever come across. In the Mobile Ed format, his courses are both comprehensive and concise. Each 5-10 minute segment is taught with clarity and a specific goal. If you want to transform your preaching, these three courses are essential.

Product Details

• Title: Bryan Chapell Preaching Bundle (3 courses)
• Instructor: Bryan Chapell
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2015-2020
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
• Courses: 3
• Video Hours: 32

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

• Instructor: Bryan Chapell
• Video hours: 15

In this course, Dr. Bryan Chapell teaches you how to structure and deliver an expository sermon. Learn how to select a biblical text, form an outline, use illustrations and applications appropriately, and communicate in a way that people will grasp and remember. These methods focus on helping God’s people understand God’s Word and its application to their lives.

Contents:

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
• What Does the Text Mean?
• Studying Parallel Accounts
• How Do I Know What the Text Means?
• Discovering Greek Grammatical Constructions
• What Concerns Caused the Text to Be Written? (Part 1)
• What Concerns Caused the Text to Be Written? (Part 2)
• What Do We Share in Common with the Author and Audience?
• How Should We Respond to the Truths of the Text?
• Communicating the Content and Application (Part 1)
• 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

CM152 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons II: Communicating a Theology of Grace

• Instructor: Bryan Chapell
• Video hours: 6

In this course, Dr. Bryan Chapell looks at the theology of grace that runs through Scripture and culminates in Jesus Christ. He explains how seeing the Bible through a redemptive lens can help you preach in a way that brings hope and motivates people to serve Christ.

The goal of preaching is to excavate the grace of God that is giving people hope, so that they are now motivated by love for Him rather than dread of Him or desire to satisfy Him who cannot be satisfied. If they understand that they’re already made right with Him by the grace of God, then they have hope. The hope gives them love, and in love for Him, they will seek to serve Him with greater energy, strength, effort, than anything else we can provide.

Dr. Chapell shows you how to use this redemptive approach in your sermons, particularly in sermon application. Building on these concepts, he then teaches you to preach through different biblical genres such as history and law, poetry and prophecy, and others.

Contents:

• A Redemptive Approach to Preaching
• Developing Redemptive Messages
• Preaching Christ-Centered Application
• Using Redemptive Lenses to Preach the Whole Bible as Christian Literature

CM153 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons III: Advanced Techniques and Theory

• Instructor: Bryan Chapell
• Video hours: 11

In part three of his series on preaching, Dr. Bryan Chapell shares advanced techniques to help you in the pulpit. He starts with his battle-tested methods, explaining how to use voice and gesture and where to add transitions to create a natural flow. You’ll learn a variety of sermon preparation and delivery methods and how to develop your own style.

Dr. Chapell then guides you away from the pulpit and into the pew. He explains the typical mindset of the different generations and common presuppositions that non-Christians and Christians bring with them on Sunday. You’ll discover how to approach sermon application based on who’s sitting in front of you and how to speak biblical truth in a way they will understand.

Contents:

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Transitions and the Dialogical Method

• The Function of Transitions
• The Nature of Transitions
• Dialogical Transitions
• Logical and Numerical Connections
• Parallel Statements, Illustrative Transitions, and Tiebacks
• Billboards
• Verse References
• The Memory Retention Hierarchy

Unit 2: Methods of Sermon Preparation

• Manuscript Sermons
• Outlined Sermons
• Fully Extemporized Sermons
• Options for Sermon Notes
• Evaluating Impromptu Preaching
• Evaluating Preaching from Outlines
• Evaluating Manuscript Preaching
• Converting a Manuscript to an Outline
• Preaching from Memory

Unit 3: Basic Features of Sermon Delivery

• The Power of Natural Delivery
• Transparent Delivery
• Expression in Delivery
• Appropriate Volume
• Variety in Verbal Expressions
• Intensity of Expression
• Gesturing and Eye Contact
• Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
• Body Movement
• Gestures to Avoid

Unit 4: Dress and Style for Sermon Delivery

• Community and Gospel Considerations
• Identifying with the People
• Principles for Appropriate Dress
• The Power of Dress
• Cultivating a Personal Style through Vulnerability
• Cultivating a Personal Style through Language
• Cultivating a Plain Style

Unit 5: Preparation and Planning for Expository Sermons

• Spiritual Preparation
• Intellectual Preparation: Knowing God’s Word
• Intellectual Preparation: Knowing Our World
• Preparation of the Attitude
• Sermon Planning
• Weekly Sermon Planning
• Disciplined Sermon Preparation
• Collecting Material for Sermons
• Filing Collected Material
• Planning for Practice and Prayer

Unit 6: The Expositor’s Stance

• RAMBOPP: Text and Sermon Focus
• RAMBOPP: Presentation Focus
• Emphasizing the Priority of God’s Word
• Reading God’s Word Meaningfully
• Tips for Reading God’s Word
• More Tips for Reading God’s Word

Unit 7: Inductive Homiletic Approaches

• Comparing Deductive and Inductive Approaches
• The Roots of Inductive Homiletics
• Starting with Questions
• Varying the Order of Sermon Components
• Varying the Time Spent on Sermon Components
• Preaching via Story: Commented Retelling
• Preaching via Story: Contemporary Retelling
• Constructing Homiletical Plots
• Choosing Appropriate Sermon Approaches and Forms
• Variations on Problem-Solution Sermons

Unit 8: New Listeners: Inside and Outside the Church

• Biblical and Doctrinal Knowledge in the Church
• Generational Differences in the Church
• Reasons for Attending Church
• Spiritual State of the Church
• God, Religion, and Culture for the Unchurched
• Values of the Unchurched
• Effective Preaching for New Listeners
• Providing Clear and Redemptive Direction to Listeners
• Addressing Objections and Self-Centeredness of Listeners
• Crafting Language for New Listeners
• Elements of Evangelistic Preaching
• Evangelistic Preaching for Different Audiences
• Evangelistic Preaching for All Audiences
• Keys to Conversational Preaching

Unit 9: Sermon Applications for New Listeners

• Principles of Traditional Application
• Troubling Aspects of Application
• Specifying Situations for Sermon Application
• Common Situations for Sermon Application
• Addressing Motivations in Sermon Applications
• How Disobedience Affects Relationship with God
• Enabling Change in Sermon Application
• Opening the Horizon for Sermon Application
• Reversing the Train in Sermon Application
• Loving a Puritan and a Parable: Two-Phased Messages
• Turning the Radio on: The Applicational Model
• Selecting an Appropriate Sermon Model

Conclusion

• Course Summary

About Bryan Chapell

Dr. Bryan Chapell is the senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois and president emeritus at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, where he has served in leadership capacities since 1985. Dr. Chapell is an internationally renowned preacher, teacher, and speaker, and the author of many books, including Christ-Centered Worship, Each for the Other, Holiness by Grace, Praying Backwards, The Hardest Sermons You’ll Ever Have to Preach, and Christ-Centered Preaching, a preaching textbook now in multiple editions and many languages that has established him as one of the nation’s foremost teachers of homiletics. He and his wife, Kathy, have four children.