Description
Table of Contents
In the classic tradition of the #1, best-selling Star Book for Ministers, Judson Press offers a resource with a special focus on preaching. Without an emphasis toward any denomination and practical in its nature, the guide offers:
• keys to an effective preaching ministry, including goals and outcomes of preaching
• text and topic selection
• information on various types of sermons
• a look at different preaching styles such as narrative and first-person preaching
• suggestions for sermon preparation
• ideas for several sermon series
• a full list of preaching resources to use as references
Featured are over a dozen sermon outlines on various topics. These outlines address:
• developing key points and direction
• effective introductions and closings
• style and delivery
Author Bio
Marvin A. McMickle, DMin, PhD is currently Interim Regional Executive Minister of The Cleveland Baptist Association of American Baptist Churches USA. He was Interim Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, where he previously served as senior pastor for nearly twenty-five years. He has also served as past president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. No stranger to academia, McMickle previously served as professor of homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary and in 2009, spent a semester as a visiting professor at Yale University Divinity School. He also taught at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State, Princeton, and Fordham universities. A prolific author, McMickle, has more than a dozen books to his credit, including resources on preaching, ministry, and African American history