Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages, 3rd ed.

by Haddon W. Robinson

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2014

Overview

Dive into the 3rd and updated edition of Haddon Robinson’s bestselling text, and find a wealth of knowledge on preparing and preaching expository sermons. Biblical Preaching has sold over 300,000 copies and remains a contemporary classic in the field. Regarded by many as the “teacher of preachers,” Robinson deftly guides students, pastors, and Bible teachers in developing and delivering biblical sermons. This latest edition has been updated throughout to include helpful exercises, and sample sermon with evaluation.

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Key Features

• Provides instruction on preparing and preaching expository sermons
• Includes helpful exercises, and a sample sermon with evaluation
• Guides students, pastors, and Bible teachers in developing and delivering sermons

Table of Contents

• The Case for Expository Preaching
• What’s the Big Idea?
• Tools of the Trade
• The Road from Text to Sermon
• The Arrow and the Target
• The Shapes Sermons Take
• Making Dry Bones Live
• Start with a Bang and Quit All Over
• The Dress of Thought
• How to Preach So People Will Listen
• A Final Word
• Sample Sermon and Evaluation
• Student Exercises

Top Highlights

“‘Do you, as a preacher, endeavor to bend your thought to the Scriptures, or do you use the Scriptures to support your thought?’” (Page 5)

“Ultimately the authority behind expository preaching resides not in the preacher but in the biblical text.” (Page 7)

“Whereas the idea states the truth, the purpose defines what that truth should accomplish.” (Page 72)

“In selecting passages for the expository sermon, therefore, a general principle to follow is this: Base the sermon on a literary unit of biblical thought.” (Page 30)

“Application must come from the theological purpose of the biblical writer.” (Page 59)

Endorsements

[An] outstanding introduction to the task of preparing and presenting biblical sermons. More than any other book of the past quarter century, Biblical Preaching has profoundly influenced a generation of evangelical preachers.

—Preaching

Product Details

• Title: Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
• Author: Haddon W. Robinson
• Edition: Third
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Preaching; Bible › Homiletical use
• ISBNs: 9781441220004, 9780801049125, 9781585582778, 1441220003, 0801049121, 1585582778
• Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLPRCHNG3RDD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-04-20T21:15:53Z

About Haddon W. Robinson

Haddon Robinson is the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching and President at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He received his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, an MA from Southern Methodist University, and a PhD from the University of Illinois. Robinson served as director of the Dallas Youth for Christ (1952–55), associate pastor of the First Baptist Church in Medford, Oregon (1956–58), and an instructor of speech at the University of Illinois (1960–62). He was president of Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary and taught homiletics at Dallas Theological Seminary for 19 years. Robinson has done extensive work in radio and television, serving as one of the hosts for Discover the Word, a daily radio program in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of What Jesus Said About Successful Living.