Revision as of 2015 December
by Mark Barnes
CM151 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons I: Foundations and Structures
Reading List
Introductory content
Word and Witness
- Power of God in His Word: Introduction
- Power of God: Inherent in His Word
- Power of God: Manifested in the Logos
- Power of the Word: Applied in Expository Preaching
- Creating a Passage List for “Word of God”
- Effectiveness of the Word: Promoted by Testimony
- Path of the Gospel and Path of the Listener
- Ethos Implications
- Performing a Greek Lemma Word Study
- Unit 1 Quiz
The Big Idea
- Sermonic Unity: The Need for It
- Sermonic Unity: Its Nature
- Sermonic Unity: Identifying a Theme or Subtheme
- Sermonic Unity: Stating Its Proposition
- Purpose: Introducing the Fallen Condition Focus
- Purpose: Identifying the Fallen Condition Focus and Its Implications
- Purpose: Explaining the Fallen Condition Focus
- Application: Its Necessity
- Application: Consequences of Nonapplication
- Unit 2 Quiz
Text Selection and Interpretation
- Study Tools
- Building Digital Concordances
- Selecting a Text: Rules
- Selecting a Text: Cautions
- Investigating Textual Differences
- Selecting a Text: Conditions
- Interpreting a Text: Standards
- Interpreting a Text: Understanding the Language
- Interpreting a Text: Genre, Text Features, and Context
- Examining Specific Genres
- Selecting a Text: Conclusions
- Unit 3 Quiz
The Road from Text to Sermon
- Introduction to Moving from Text to Sermon
- 1. What Does the Text Mean?
- Studying Parallel Accounts
- 2. How Do I Know What the Text Means?
- Discovering Greek Grammatical Constructions
- 3. What Concerns Caused the Text to Be Written? (Part 1)
- 3. What Concerns Caused the Text to Be Written? (Part 2)
- 4. What Do We Share in Common with the Author and Audience?
- 5. How Should We Respond to the Truths of the Text?
- 6. Communicating the Content and Application (Part 1)
- 6. Communicating the Content and Application (Part 2)
- Unit 4 Quiz
Outlining and Arrangement
- Introduction to Outlining and Arrangement
- Purposes of an Outline
- Qualities of Good Homiletical Outlines
- Types of Homiletical Outlines
- Building Logical and Sequential Outlines
- Contents of Good Homiletical Outlines
- Developmental Principles for Homiletical Outlines
- Pulpit Outlines: Consistent Visual Markers and Cautions
- Unit 5 Quiz
Proposition and Main Points
Sermon Divisions and Development
Midterm Exam
Classification of Messages
Exposition: Components and Proportions
Illustrations That Empower
- Illustrations: Introduction
- Illustrations: Their Power
- Illustration: Wrong Reasons for Doing It
- Illustration: Right Reasons for Doing It
- Illustrations: Providing Vicarious Learning Experiences
- Illustrations: Isolating and Associating
- Illustrations: Narrating
- Illustrations: Introducing Them
- Illustrations: Using Concreteness and Detail
- Illustrations: Relating and Applying to Your Point
- Illustrations: Expositional Rain (Part 1)
- Illustrations: Expositional Rain (Part 2)
- Illustrations: Sources
- Illustrations: A Balanced View
- Illustrations: Cautions (Part 1)
- Illustrations: Cautions (Part 2)
- Unit 10 Quiz
Application
- Application: Essential to Full Exposition
- Finding Points of Application
- What Is Application?
- Application: Giving Reason, Focus, and Clarity to Exposition
- Application: Required in Scripture
- Components of Application: What?
- Components of Application: Where?
- Components of Application: Why? and How?
- What Makes Application Difficult?
Overcoming the Application Breaking Point
Sermon Introductions
- Sermon Introductions: An Example
- Sermon Introductions: Their Purpose
- Sermon Introductions: Opening Words and Opening Moments
- Sermon Introductions: Types (Part 1)
- Sermon Introductions: Types (Part 2)
- Marks of Poor Sermon Introductions
- Marks of Good Sermon Introductions
- Scripture Introductions: Their Separate Purpose
- The Introduction Chain
Sermon Conclusions
Conclusion
Final Exam
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