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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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| 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 |
Additional Resources
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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