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CM151 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons I: Foundations and Structures
Reading List
Introductory content
Title Page
Syllabus
Introduction
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
What Is a Proposition?
Marks of a Good Proposition
Marks of Good “Formal” Main Points
Marks of Good “Conversational” Proposition and Main Points
Propositions and Main Points: Some Helpful Hints
Propositions and Main Points: Harmonizing Them
Propositions and Main Points: More Helpful Hints
Sermon Divisions and Development
Guidelines for Main Point Divisions
Guidelines for Subpoint Divisions (Part 1)
Guidelines for Subpoint Divisions (Part 2)
Three Basic Types of Subpoints
Standard Progression of Explanation within a Main Point
Units 6–7 Quiz
Midterm Exam
Midterm Exam
Classification of Messages
Classifications: Introduction
Topical Sermons
Building a Topical Sermon
Textual Sermons
Expository Sermons: Features and Advantages
Building an Expositional Sermon
Expository Sermons: Potential Problems
Unit 8 Quiz
Exposition: Components and Proportions
Exposition: Introduction
Exposition: Three Essential Elements
Exposition and Illustrative Material
Collecting Media Illustrations
Application: Instructional and Situational Specificity
Application: Motivation and Enablement
The Shape of Exposition
Exposition: Summary
Unit 9 Quiz
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
Disarming Hostility
Making Sensible Proposals and Fitting the Tone to the Task
Providing Sufficient Guidance for Making Decisions
Other Recommendations
Application: Cautions and Attitude
Proper Attitudes for Making Applications
Units 11–12 Quiz
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
Guiding Principles for Conclusions
Components of Conclusions
Effective Conclusions: Marks and Cautions
Cautions and Hints for Effective Conclusions
Units 13–14 Quiz
Conclusion
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Final Exam
Final Exam
Last modified
2015 December
by Mark Barnes
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