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CM099

Christ-Centered Preaching: Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

Course Description

Dr. Bryan Chapell explores the unifying principle of grace that binds all Scripture together. He outlines and demonstrates the principles and practice of sermon crafting and delivery to illuminate the message of grace in each passage, and to submit it to God's Spirit for the transformation of lives through preaching.

Course Instructor

Bryan Chapell and Zack Eswine

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MP3 Audio Lectures & Resources Lecture Transcript Study Guide
1 Course Information Transcript n/a Transcript Study Guide n/a Download Listen
2 Word and Witness Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
3 What's the Big Idea? Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
4 Text Selection and Interpretation Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
5 The Road from Text to Sermon Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
6 Outlining and Arrangement Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
7 Propositions and Main Points--Part 1 Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
8 Proposition and Main Points--Part 2: Workshop on Homiletical Outlines Transcript n/a Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
9 Introductions Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
10 Exposition--Part 1 Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
11 Exposition--Part 2: Workshop on Sermon Introductions Transcript n/a Transcript Study Guide n/a Download Listen
12 Sermon Divisions and Development Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
13 Conclusions Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
14 Classification of Messages Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
15 Explanation Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
16 Why to Illustrate Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
17 How to Illustrate--Part 1 Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
18 How to Illustrate--Part 2 Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
19 Application--Part 1 Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
20 Application--Part 2 Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
21 Transitions and Dialogical Method Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
22 Methods of Sermon Presentation Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
23 Voice and Gesture Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
24 Dress and Style Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
25 Old Friends in New Clothes Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
26 Word and Spirit Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
27 A Redemptive Approach to Preaching Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
28 Developing Redemptive Messages Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
29 Hearing the Application of Redemptive Principles Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide PDF Download Listen
30 Redemptive Interpretation and Biblical Genre Transcript PDF Transcript Study Guide n/a Download Listen

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Related Readings

All of the books specified as related reading for this course are listed below. Books may be ordered from a local Christian bookstore, through a mail order catalog, from the Covenant Seminary Online Store, or from the Covenant Seminary Bookstore on campus (call toll-free at 877-213-3353).

* Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, 2nd ed. (Baker, 2005), Bryan Chapell
* Holiness by Grace (Crossway, 2001), Bryan Chapell
* Between Two Worlds (Eerdmans, 1982), John Stott
* Preaching & Biblical Theology (Eerdmans, 1961; rpt. Presbyterian & Reformed, n.d.), Edmund Clowney
* Putting the Truth to Work (Presbyterian & Reformed, 2001), Daniel M. Doriani
* Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Literature (Eerdmans, 2000), Graeme Goldsworthy
* A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (4th ed), John A. Broadus



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