One Year to Better
Preaching, cover photo from Kregel.com
One Year to Better Preaching is an excellent book for
pastors and communicators who want to improve their preaching, communication
skills, and teaching. The book provides the reader with fifty-two experiential
exercises designed to hone the craft of preaching and communicating the gospel
effectively.
As communicators and teachers of the gospel, we must take
our calling and craft seriously and seek to improve and do our jobs with
excellence. Continued professional development is essential. This book offers fifty-two
helpful exercises, one for every week of the year, to help develop the necessary
skills needed to execute an effective sermon or teaching time.
Communicating and preaching is an art, but is also a skill
that can be developed. One Year to
Better Preaching provides an assortment of engaging, diverse and
creative exercises, tools, suggestions and resources for the following eight
categorizations of preaching: Prayer and Preaching, Bible Interpretation,
Understanding Listeners, Sermon Construction, Illustrations and Applications,
Word Crafting, The Preaching Event, and Sermon Evaluation.
The versatility of the book’s use is described on the publisher’s website;
“Readers can complete the exercises in the order presented, which address
different categories week to week, or they can sharpen their skills in a
particular category over a period of weeks by using the chart provided. They
might also work through the exercises in collaboration with other preachers.”
The author, Daniel Overdorf, really
seeks to serve pastors with this work and caters to their need for versatility.
The author, Daniel
Overdorf, who has a Doctor of Ministry in Preaching from
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and over ten years of pastoral experience, is
well positioned to speak with authority, clarity, accuracy and skill on the
subject of homiletics, the art of preaching. He presently teaches preaching and
pastoral ministries and is a member of the Evangelical Homiletical
Society. He has also previously written on the subject of preaching in his book
Applying the
Sermon.
Kregel
Publication, the book’s publisher, has the following description of Overdorf’s book, One Year to Better Preaching, on their website:
The book is designed
particularly for those who preach each week—and have been, perhaps, for some
time—to help them get out of the rut of the routine and infuse their preaching
with new sparks of creativity, fresh approaches to sermon preparation and
design, and sharpened verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Novice
preachers, also, will find the exercises useful in developing their preaching
abilities.
I highly recommend One
Year to Better Preaching and think it is a wonderful resource that
will serve any pastor, Bible teacher or communicator well and agree with the
publisher that “One Year to Better
Preaching will leave a preacher reinvigorated and better equipped to
proclaim the Word of God skillfully, passionately, and effectively.”
In exchange for this non-biased review, the reviewer received a free copy of the book, One Year to Better Preaching. This review is also published on My Two Mites, Examiner, Amazon, and Christian Book.
In exchange for this non-biased review, the reviewer received a free copy of the book, One Year to Better Preaching. This review is also published on My Two Mites, Examiner, Amazon, and Christian Book.
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