Preaching Christ from Genesis: Foundations for Expository Sermons

by Sidney Greidanus

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2007

Overview

Preaching Christ from Genesis offers solid, practical, homiletical fare. Sidney Greidanus analyzes twenty-three Genesis narratives and presents the rhetorical structures and other tropes of each narrative. He also explores various ways of preaching Christ from each narrative and offers sermons exposition and commentary in oral style.

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Key Features

• Analyzes twenty-three Genesis narratives
• Explores various ways of preaching Christ from each narrative
• Offers sermons exposition and commentary in oral style

Contents

Top Highlights

“Before self-sufficient Jacob can enter the Promised Land, God needs to change Jacob into Israel, a person who strives with God for his blessing.” (Page 322)

“The sovereign God exalts the prisoner Joseph to ruler of Egypt in order to save the world from famine.” (Page 399)

“Even as God judges the world for human sin and violence, in his grace he continues his kingdom on earth by making a new start with Noah, his family, and selected animals.” (Page 106)

“The sovereign God exalts his suffering servant to kingship in order to save the world.” (Page 402)

“The creation narrative, similarly, would not only correct Israel’s worldview but also give them good hope that they were not at the mercy of fickle pagan gods but were under the protection of their sovereign God, the Creator of heaven and earth. In this context a deeper, more relevant, goal of this message for Israel would be, to comfort God’s fearful people with the knowledge that their God is the sovereign Creator God who controls the world’s destiny and theirs.” (Page 49)

Praise for the Print Edition

A book for every preacher’s library. Not only will it help you preach many Christ-centered sermons on Genesis, but also its repetition of fundamental insights and skills will help you develop homiletical muscle memory that will hopefully transform you from workman to an artisan, from a duffer to a tiger.

—Calvin Theological Journal

Product Details

• Title: Preaching Christ from Genesis: Foundations for Expository Sermons
• Author: Sidney Greidanus
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 536
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. Genesis › Sermons; Preaching; Bible. O.T. Genesis › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780802825865, 0802825869
• Resource ID: LLS:PRCHNGCHRSTGNSS
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-24T16:37:27Z

About Sidney Greidanus

Sidney Greidanus is professor emeritus of preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan.