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Passion in the Pulpit: How to Exegete the Emotion of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Biblical exegesis doesn’t stop with the words alone. Faithful preachers exegete the emotion of the text as well. It’s easy to let our own personalities dictate the emotional dimension of our sermons, but the best preachers mirror the Bible’s emotive intent in their sermons. In Passion in the Pulpit, Jerry Vines and Adam Dooley will teach you how to exegete not just the verbal content of...

followed by her husband, Adam, followed by the whole human race. Indeed, motive is the real test as to manipulation or persuasion. Dr. Dooley continues the theme of our book that our purpose in preaching is to convey the pathos of our Scripture passage. As he so helpfully explains, with legitimate pathos as our motive, we are free to plead, exhort, admonish, and persuade, using whatever emotions are necessary to accomplish that end. When we avoid the dangers of manipulation, we are freed to use the emotional