A MANUAL FOR PREACHING

The Journey from Text to Sermon

Abraham Kuruvilla

a division of Baker Publishing Group

Grand Rapids, Michigan

© 2019 by Abraham Kuruvilla

Published by Baker Academic

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PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kuruvilla, Abraham., author.

Title: A manual for preaching : the journey from text to sermon / Abraham Kuruvilla.

Description: Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018061706 | ISBN 9780801098635 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Preaching.

Classification: LCC BV4211.3 .K865 2019 | DDC 251—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018061706

ISBN 978-1-5409-6237-9 (casebound)

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture translations are the author’s own.

Scripture quotations labeled NASB are from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org

Portions of this text were originally published in Ephesians: A Theological Commentary for Preachers (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015). Used with permission by Wipf & Stock Publishing. Wipfandstock.com.

Portions of this text were originally published in Genesis: A Theological Commentary for Preachers (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2014). Used with permission by Wipf & Stock Publishing. Wipfandstock.com.

Portions of this text were originally published in “ ‘How Do You Read?’ A Hermeneutic for Preaching,” in Leitourgia: Christian Service, Collected Essays: A Festschrift for Joykutty M. George (Bangalore, India: Primalogue, 2015), 51–70. Used with permission.

Portions of this text were originally published in Privilege the Text! by Abraham Kuruvilla © 2013. Used by permission of Moody Publishers. All rights reserved.

Portions of this text were originally published in “ ‘What Is the Author Doing with What He Is Saying?’ Pragmatics and Preaching—An Appeal,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 60 (2017): 557–80. Used with permission.

To those who weekly submit themselves to sermons

—the people of God—

desiring to experience the word of God

facilitated by the preachers of God:

may your lives be transformed thereby into the likeness

of the Son of God

by the wondrous power of the Spirit of God

for the glory of God!