Archive for August, 2013

Guiding Preachers in Development of Narrative Skills for Sermon Illustrations

Evangelical Homiletics Society, 2005 Guiding Preachers in Development of Narrative Skills for Sermon Illustrations Austin B. Tucker Shreveport, Louisiana Abtucker77@aol.com Abstract Preachers can and must cultivate storytelling skills. They may find help in a Narration Work- sheet charting the essential elements of story: plot, setting, character, point of view, and unity. A Plot Movements ...

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What Do You Mean “Truth Through Personality”? The Phillips Brooks Definition of Preaching in Historical Context

Evangelical Homiletics Society, 2004 What Do You Mean “Truth Through Personality”? The Phillips Brooks Definition of Preaching in Historical Context Austin B. Tucker Shreveport, Louisiana abtucker77@aol.com Abstract Applying historical-grammatical hermeneutics to the Brooks definition of preaching as truth through personality helps us hear Brooks say that the sum of all truth is Christ. His truth does not ...

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