Christ-Centered Sermons: Models of Redemptive Preaching

by Bryan Chapell

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2013

Overview

Highly regarded preacher and teacher Bryan Chapell shows readers how he has prepared expository sermons according to the principles he developed in his bestselling Christ-Centered Preaching. This companion volume provides concrete examples of Chapell’s approach in various types of sermons and genres of the Bible. Not only do the example sermons demonstrate different approaches—they’re also analyzed for pedagogical purposes, helping readers move from theory to practice. In essence, the book allows students and preachers to look over Chapell’s shoulder as he prepares these messages to learn how to construct their own expository sermons that communicate grace and truth from both the Old and New Testaments.

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Key Features

• Multiple approaches to sermon planning and implementation
• Example sermons prepared by Chapell
• Tips for preparing special-occasion sermons, such as those for weddings or funerals

Contents

• Principles for Expository Preaching
  • Word and Witness
  • Obligations of the Sermon
  • The Priority of the Text
  • Components of Exposition
• Preparation of Expository Sermons
  • The Process of Examination
  • Outlining and Structure
  • The Pattern of Illustration
  • The Practice of Application
  • Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions
• A Theology of Christ-Centered Messages
  • A Redemptive Approach to Preaching
  • Developing Redemptive Sermons

Top Highlights

“In essence, redemptive exposition requires that we identify an aspect of our fallen condition that is addressed by the Holy Spirit in each passage, which he inspired for our edification, and then show God’s way out of the human dilemma.¹³ Identification of an appropriate fallen condition focus (FCF) will occur in each sermon of this book. Attention to such a pattern in Scripture not only exposes the human predicament that requires God’s relief but also forces the preacher to focus on a divine solution. Our salvation rests in God’s provision. God’s glory is always the highest purpose of the sermon.” (Pages xvi–xvii)

“The mark of that Spirit in us is not the absence of sin in our lives but the presence of new desires and new power to overcome temptation (Rom. 8:5–15).” (Page xxii)

“The needed reordering of priorities will not come by emptying the sermon of biblical content but by preparing it with the goals of equipping God’s people for spiritual warfare and welfare. Our primary goal is not preparing people for later tests of mind or behavior but rather humbling the heart and strengthening the will of each listener in the present moment. Because God is active in his Word, we should preach with the conviction that the Spirit of God will use the truths of his Word as we preach to change hearts now! As hearts change, lives change—even when sermon specifics are forgotten (Prov. 4:23).” (Page x)

“This first sermon is expository, meaning that it explains a particular passage of Scripture by clarifying the main and subordinate ideas of the author in the context of the biblical passage and by applying these spiritual truths to our contemporary situations. The approach is deductive, meaning that it moves from the development of general principles to the statement of particular applications (inductive sermons move in the opposite direction).” (Page 4)

Product Details

• Title: Christ-Centered Sermons: Models of Redemptive Preaching
• Author: Bryan Chapell
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Sermons, American; Preaching
• ISBNs: 9781441257529, 9780801048692, 1441257527, 0801048699
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTCNTRDSRMNS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-19T16:12:40Z

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.