Preaching with Purpose: The Urgent Task of Homiletics (Biblia.com)

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"The amazing lack of concern for purpose among homileticians and preachers has spawned a brood of preachers who are dull, lifeless, abstract and impersonal; it has obscured truth, hindered joyous Christian living, destroyed dedication and initiative, and stifled service for Christ." –Jay Adams, from the book Preaching needs to become purposeful, says Jay Adams, because purposeless preaching is...

may be called simply “speaking” (lalia) as it is in I Corinthians 1:6. Both didaskalia and lalia, among other things, include paraklesis (“aid, assistance, advice, exhortation, encouragement, urging”), paramuthia (“comfort, cheer”), and nouthesia (“counsel, admonition”) as well as instruction (cf. Titus 2:15). There are, then, two kinds of preaching (because of a deeply impressed use of the English word I shall use the term “preaching” to cover both evangelistic and pastoral speaking): evangelistic

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