Expository Preaching · Intermediate
Preaching Every Kind of Text
God gave His Word as story, law, song, proverb, prophecy, Gospel, parable, letter, and vision, and the faithful expositor lets each kind of text set the size of the passage, reveal its main idea, and shape the sermon.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
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Why every kind of biblical writing is profitable to preach, and why the preacher must not live in one genre
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How genre sets the preaching unit, shows where the main idea lies, and shapes the sermon's structure
3
How to preach narrative, law, poetry and wisdom, prophecy, the Gospels and parables, epistles, and Revelation from worked examples
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How every kind of text leads, by its own road, to Christ
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